Abstract: A method controls the downlink beam in a radio communication system. The radio communication system has an antenna system with several antenna elements. The method involves a) examining a received uplink signal sent by a transmitter for the existence of phase correlations between parts of the uplink signal received from various antenna elements of the antenna system, and b) if a phase correlation is detected, assigning at least one source direction to the uplink signal and sending the downlink signal in the source direction. If a phase correlation is not detected, however, the downlink signal is sent in a non-directional manner in the form of several components produced using at least one diversity technique.

Abstract: A system and related methods for clustering multi-point communication targets is presented. According to one aspect of the invention, a method comprising measuring one or more performance characteristics associated for each of at least a subset of a plurality of targets in a wireless communication system, and selectively building one or more clusters, each cluster including one or more target(s) and sharing a wireless communication channel, based at least in part on the performance characteristics.

Abstract: A system and related methods for clustering multi-point communication targets is presented. According to one aspect of the invention, a method comprising measuring one or more performance characteristics associated for each of at least a subset of a plurality of targets in a wireless communication system, and selectively building one or more clusters, each cluster including one or more target(s) and sharing a wireless communication channel, based at least in part on the performance characteristics.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided that can combine the benefits of beamforming with transmit diversity. In one embodiment, the invention includes sampling a signal received from a remote radio at elements of an antenna array, deriving spatial parameters for transmitting a signal to the remote radio from an antenna array, sampling the signal received from the remote radio at elements of at least one additional antenna array, and deriving spatial parameters for transmitting a signal to the remote radio from the at least one additional antenna array. The invention further includes generating diversity parameters for transmitting a signal to the remote radio using each antenna array as an element of a diversity array, and transmitting a signal to the remote radio using the spatial parameters and the diversity parameters.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling the downlink beam in a radio communication system, said radio communication system comprising an antenna system with several antenna elements (AE). The inventive method comprises the following steps: a) examining a received uplink signal sent by a transmitter for the existence of phase correlations between parts of the uplink signal (S1) received from various antenna elements of the antenna system, and b) if a phase correlation is detected (S3), assigning at least one source direction to the uplink signal and sending the downlink signal in the source direction (S5, S7). If a phase correlation is not detected (S10), however, the downlink signal is sent in a non-directional manner in the form of several components (S11) produced using at least one diversity technique.

Abstract: In a radio communication system, a beam is formed between subscriber stations and a base station which has an antenna device with several antenna elements. The antenna elements emit a downlink signal based on respective weighing with coefficients of a weighting vector. A plurality of weighting vectors are determined at the subscriber station in an initialization phase and transmitted to the base station. In a subsequent working phase, the subscriber station selects a dominant weighting vector from the weighting vectors and transmits a designation of the selected weighting vector to the base station.

Abstract: The invention relates to a radio communications system comprising subscriber stations and a base station (BS) that is provided with an antenna system with a plurality of antenna elements that emit a downlink signal in a weighted manner with coefficients of a weighting vector. In order to form a beam, a plurality of weighting vectors is determined at the subscriber station (2) and the determined weighting vectors are transmitted to the base station (4). In a subsequent working phase, the subscriber station selects a dominant vector among the determined weighting vectors (6) and transmits an indicator of the selected weighting vector to the base station (7).

Abstract: In order to evaluate a radio signal in a radio receiver, comprising an antenna device with several antennae elements (A1, . . . , AM), each of which delivers a received signal (U1, . . . , UM), a number N of first weighting vectors w(k,1), w(k,2), which represent a selection of the eigen vectors for the time-determined spatial covariant matrix, for a user station (MSk) are determined. The symbols contained in the user signal Ik, obtained by the formation of a product of the form SWU are assessed. W is the M×N matrix for the first weighting vectors, S is a selection vector with N components and U is the vector for the received signals (U1, . . . , UM). The selection vector is cyclically fixed in the working phase. A device for the evaluation of a radio signal, comprises, amongst others, a memory element (10) for the storage of N weighting vectors for each one same sender (MSk) and a beam formation network (1) with a control input of the selection vector (S).

Abstract: A receiver that operates to recover data from spread spectrum radio signals, which include radio signals generated from a combination of the data and a data spreading code associated with the user and radio signals generated from a combination of a predetermined sequence of pilot data and a pilot spreading code. The receiver includes a plurality of antennas, each arranged to detect a different version of the radio signals. Base band conversion means is coupled to the plurality of antennas and arranged to generate, for each antenna, base band signal samples representative of the version of the radio signals.

Abstract: A system and related methods for clustering multi-point communication targets is presented. According to one aspect of the invention, a method comprising measuring one or more performance characteristics associated for each of at least a subset of a plurality of targets in a wireless communication system, and selectively building one or more clusters, each cluster including one or more target(s) and sharing a wireless communication channel, based at least in part on the performance characteristics.

Abstract: A method for measuring characteristics of radio channels, in which the signals are received by a total of M1 receiving sensors in a linear antenna array, in which case the respective received signals are composed of wave elements of a transmitted signal with a different incidence direction and different delay, the transmitted signal contains a preselected test sequence, and the incidence angle as well as the delay of the dominant wave fronts are estimated simultaneously, taking account of the chip signal form of the test sequence, the signals from each antenna sensor are demodulated, and sampling is then carried out with Mc samples per chip in the test sequence.

Abstract: The characteristics of radio channels are measured. The signals received by a plurality Mc of receiving sensors of a two-dimensional antenna array are composed of wave elements of a transmission signal with regard to the azimuth and the elevation of a different two-dimensional incidence direction and different delay. The transmission signal contains a preselected test sequence, and the incidence angle as well as the delay of the dominant wave fronts are estimated simultaneously taking account of the chip signal form of the test sequence. The signals of each antenna sensor are demodulated, and sampling is then carried out with Mc samples per chip in the test sequence.

Abstract: A radio communications receiver for detecting first and second contemporaneously transmitted radio signals representative of first and second data. An adaptive antenna detects at least one wave front from the first radio signals, and at least one wave front from the second radio signals. A first radio detector which regenerates first data from the first wave front. An interference canceller subtracts the first radio signals, reconstituted from the first data, from the second wave front, dependent on interference from the first wave front to the second wave front. A second data detector regenerates the second data from the second wave front after the subtraction of the first wave front consequent upon the second radio signals. The first and second data are communicated contemporaneously on at least common parts of the radio frequency spectrum.