Patents by Inventor Cédric Abgrall

Cédric Abgrall has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9392465
    Abstract: The invention relates to a link adaptation method for a cellular or heterogeneous wireless telecommunications system. The communications of the system are organized in pairs of interfering communications. For a first communication between a first transmitting terminal and a first receiving terminal interfering with a second communication between a second transmitting terminal and a second receiving terminal, the first and/or second link(s) are adapted, at a constant transmission power, by selecting a weak or strong interference regime for the first and/or second link(s), the weak regime corresponding to processing of the interference as thermal noise, the strong regime corresponding to processing in which the interfering communication is decoded in order to be eliminated from the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventors: Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Cedric Abgrall
  • Patent number: 8862059
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a communication method supervised by an interference classification. For two couples of transmitting and receiving terminals having communications using the same radio resources and interfering with each other, a partition of the interference diagram into a plurality of distinct zones is determined, each zone corresponding to a particular processing. For an operating point of the transmitting and receiving terminals, the zone in which this point is located is determined, and the processing associated with that zone is performed in at least one of the receiving terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventors: Cédric Abgrall, Emilio Calvanese Strinati
  • Publication number: 20140219195
    Abstract: The invention relates to a link adaptation method for a cellular or heterogeneous wireless telecommunications system. The communications of the system are organized in pairs of interfering communications. For a first communication between a first transmitting terminal and a first receiving terminal interfering with a second communication between a second transmitting terminal and a second receiving terminal, the first and/or second link(s) are adapted, at a constant transmission power, by selecting a weak or strong interference regime for the first and/or second link(s), the weak regime corresponding to processing of the interference as thermal noise, the strong regime corresponding to processing in which the interfering communication is decoded in order to be eliminated from the received signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE ALT
    Inventors: Emilio CALVANESE STRINATI, Cedric Abgrall
  • Patent number: 8626229
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a centralized power allocation method in a wireless telecommunication system comprising at least a first couple of terminals, consisting of a first transmitting terminal and a first receiving terminal, and a second couple of terminals, consisting of a second transmitting terminal and a second receiving terminal. A control node partitions the interference diagram between the communication of the first couple and the communication of the second couple, into different areas, each area being associated to a type of processing of the interference. The control node calculates the minimum power curve for each communication in each said area. The power values to be allocated are given by the coordinates of the point of intersection of both curves in said diagram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventors: Cédric Abgrall, Emilio Calvanese Strinati
  • Patent number: 8504010
    Abstract: A method of power allocation in a wireless telecommunication system including at least a first couple of terminals, including a first transmitting terminal and of a first receiving terminal, and of a second couple of terminals, including a second transmitting terminal and a second receiving terminal. After a phase of initialization of the allocated powers, a plurality of iterations are carried out, each iteration including a first half-iteration, which is the task of the first couple of terminals, and a second half-iteration which is the task of the second couple of terminals. Each half-iteration includes a step of estimating the signal-to-noise and interference-to-noise ratios by the receiving terminal, and a step of calculating the minimum output power compatible with the treatment of the interference, for the prescribed throughput of the call in question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventors: Cédric Abgrall, Emilio Calvanese Strinati
  • Publication number: 20120083300
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a centralised power allocation method in a wireless telecommunication system comprising at least a first couple of terminals, consisting of a first transmitting terminal and a first receiving terminal, and a second couple of terminals, consisting of a second transmitting terminal and a second receiving terminal. A control node partitions the interference diagram between the communication of the first couple and the communication of the second couple, into different areas, each area being associated to a type of processing of the interference. The control node calculates the minimum power curve for each communication in each said area. The power values to be allocated are given by the coordinates of the point of intersection of both curves in said diagram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE ALT
    Inventors: Cédric Abgrall, Emilio Calvanese Strinati
  • Publication number: 20120021757
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a distributed method of power allocation in a wireless telecommunication system comprising at least a first couple of terminals, consisting of a first transmitting terminal and of a first receiving terminal, and of a second couple of terminals, consisting of a second transmitting terminal and a second receiving terminal. After a phase of initialization of the allocated powers (615), a plurality of iterations is carried out, each iteration comprising a first half-iteration (620, 630, 640), which is the task of the first couple, and a second half-iteration (650, 660, 670) which is the task of the second couple of terminals. Each half-iteration comprises a step (620) of estimation of the signal-to-noise and interference-to-noise ratios by the receiving terminal, a step (630, 640) of calculating the minimum output power compatible with the treatment of the interference, for the prescribed throughput of the call in question.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE ALT
    Inventors: Cédric Abgrall, Emilio Calvanese Strinati
  • Publication number: 20120021787
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a communication method supervised by an interference classification. For two couples of transmitting and receiving terminals having communications using the same radio resources and interfering with each other, a partition of the interference diagram into a plurality of distinct zones is determined, each zone corresponding to a particular processing. For an operating point of the transmitting and receiving terminals, the zone in which this point is located is determined, and the processing associated with that zone is performed in at least one of the receiving terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE ALT
    Inventors: Cédric ABGRALL, Emilio Calvanese Strinati
  • Publication number: 20110013584
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method to allocate transmission resources in a cell network of cooperative type. Each cell comprises a source, a receiver and optionally a half-duplex relay to relay data transmitted by the source to the receiver. The invention draws advantage from the half-duplex mode of a relay belonging to a cell, by allocating to the source of a neighbouring cell a resource used by this relay during one same transmission timeslot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Comm. a I' ener. atom. et aux energies alter.
    Inventors: Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Cédric Abgrall