Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus may increase or extend the range of wireless communication cells for a given throughput in a downlink of a wireless communication system. When transmitting data in a downlink of a plurality of access point cells in a wireless local area network (WLAN), the range of the downlink may be increased for a given throughput under one or more radiated power constraints. The method includes providing a plurality of antennas at an access point to transmit the data to a wireless unit under at least one of a first and a second radiated power constraints. The method further includes using the plurality of antennas for beamforming over a group of sub-carriers subject to the first and/or second radiated power constraints.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for communicating data over a network between a communication node, for example, an access point having a first and a second antenna and a first and a second mobile station. The method comprises weighting a first data at the access point to transmit the first data using the first and second antennas so that the first mobile station only receives the first data and weighting a second data at the access point to transmit the second data using the first and second antennas so that the second mobile station only receives the second data. A space division multiple access (SDMA) module may cause a transmission protocol to transmit the first data to the first mobile station on the downlink and transmit the second data to the second mobile station in parallel to the transmission of the first data on the downlink.

Abstract: A receiver of digital data bursts is provided comprising an antenna array, a first space time filter having filter coefficients initialized by estimation over just training data in a received burst and providing symbol estimates and a second space time filter having filter coefficients initialized by estimation over the received burst and providing symbol estimates. In use at least one pass to determine a symbol estimate in the received burst is undertaken by each space time filter and a selector operates to determine which of the first and second filters provides the symbol estimate closer to an expected value.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus may increase or extend the range of wireless communication cells for a given throughput in a downlink of a wireless communication system. When transmitting data in a downlink of a plurality of access point cells in a wireless local area network (WLAN), the range of the downlink may be increased for a given throughput under one or more radiated power constraints. The method includes providing a plurality of antennas at an access point to transmit the data to a wireless unit under at least one of a first and a second radiated power constraints. The method further includes using the plurality of antennas for bearnforming over a group of sub-carriers subject to the first and/or second radiated power constraints.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for communicating data over a network between a communication node, for example, an access point having a first and a second antenna and a first and a second mobile station. The method comprises weighting a first data at the access point to transmit the first data using the first and second antennas so that the first mobile station only receives the first data and weighting a second data at the access point to transmit the second data using the first and second antennas so that the second mobile station only receives the second data. A space division multiple access (SDMA) module may cause a transmission protocol to transmit the first data to the first mobile station on the downlink and transmit the second data to the second mobile station in parallel to the transmission of the first data on the downlink.

Abstract: In a PRACH channel, colliding signals are resolved by use of a number of training-like symbols in the colliding data payloads. The signals are estimated by spatio temporal filters running a training-based or semi-blind algorithm, and a selection criterion is applied to the estimated signals, such as distance from the finite alphabet or the mean square error.

Abstract: A receiver of digital data bursts is provided comprising an antenna array, a first space time filter having filter coefficients initialised by estimation over just training data in a received burst and providing symbol estimates and a second space time filter having filter coefficients initialised by estimation over the received burst and providing symbol estimates. In use at least one pass to determine a symbol estimate in the received burst is undertaken by each space time filter and a selector operates to determine which of the first and second filters provides the symbol estimate closer to an expected value.

Abstract: In a radio telecommunications system such as GSM or EDGE, at each timeslot a small number of information symbols in narrow bands of the data payloads adjacent each tail of the timeslot are used as training-like symbols; for each burst, the end of the timeslot more affected by asynchronous CCI is sensed, and the training-like symbols at that end are processed, together with conventional midamble training symbols and tails symbols, by a CCI rejection algorithm.

Abstract: A mobile telephone system includes a base station which establishes a link with a selected mobile station. The received signal from the mobile station will include a noise component as well as a possible interference component from another mobile station operating at the same frequency in another cell. The base station has a trellis based equalization system which operates on the assumption that the received signal includes components which have a predominantly Gaussian characteristic. A switch controller determines when the interference component (which is non-gaussian) in the received signal becomes a dominant component and operates to switch a spatio-temporal filter into the circuit instead of the trellis based equalization system, to improve the bit error rate performance.

Abstract: A frequency estimator is provided for use in a receiver of packetized data. The frequency estimator determines the signal frequency error ({circumflex over (ƒ)}o) with which a data packet has been received. It does this by relating data (gn) representative of some symbols to decisions (Sn) on those symbols. These symbols include not only training symbols (Nt) but also some information symbols (Nadd).

Abstract: In a PRACH channel, colliding signals are resolved by use of a number of training-like symbols in the colliding data payloads. The signals are estimated by spatio temporal filters running a training-based or semi-blind algorithm, and a selection criterion is applied to the estimated signals, such as distance from the finite alphabet or the mean square error.

Abstract: A mobile telephone system includes a base station which establishes a link with a selected mobile station. The received signal from the mobile station will include a noise component as well as a possible interference component from another mobile station operating at the same frequency in another cell. The base station has a trellis based equalization system which operates on the assumption that the received signal includes components which have a predominantly Gaussian characteristic. A switch controller determines when the interference component (which is non-gaussian) in the received signal becomes a dominant component and operates to switch a spatio-temporal filter into the circuit instead of the trellis based equalization system, to improve the bit error rate performance.

Abstract: A time division multiple access cellular radio telecommunications network is disclosed, in which physical channels may be reused in the same cell. Reused channels on the up link are differentiated by a time shift between them. Same cell reuse (SCR) can thus be implemented in a TDMA (GSM) system without assigning different signatures to SDMA users sharing the same physical channel.