Patents by Inventor Hongfeng Qin
Hongfeng Qin 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).
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Publication number: 20150358913Abstract: A method and apparatus for configuring downlink power parameters are disclosed. The method includes: a base station configuring downlink power parameters for both a primary cell and a coordinated cell of a terminal in a Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) set in which the terminal is located; and the base station notifying the terminal of the downlink power parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2013Publication date: December 10, 2015Applicant: ZTE CorporationInventors: Hanqing Xu, Yajun Zhao, Linmei Mo, Chen Huang, Yujie Li, Baoyu Sun, Guofeng Chen, Hongfeng Qin
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Patent number: 9172450Abstract: Provided is a processing method and apparatus for performing space-time decoding on MIMO signals. The method includes: performing QR decomposition on a channel matrix H with a size of Nr×Nt in a MIMO system and performing an initialization operation, wherein Nt is the number of transmitting antennas and Nr is the number of receiving antennas; enumerating candidate constellation points of transmitting signals at each level of transmitting antennas according to an input parameter M=[M1, M2, . . . , MNt], a receiving signal y and a result of QR decomposition of H, wherein M is the number of the numerated candidate constellation points at each level, y=Hs+n; calculating increments of a Euclid distance due to addition of selection of a candidate constellation point at present level according to obtained candidate constellation points; and deciding and outputting space-time decoding according to the sum of calculated increments of Euclid distances of candidate constellation points at all levels.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Hongfeng Qin, Gaocai Xiong, Yue Xiao, Hongzhi Zhao
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Publication number: 20150236872Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for estimating a channel in a multiple-receiving antenna system. The method comprises: a channel estimation is performed on a received pilot signal by using a least square channel estimation algorithm to obtain an estimation value HLS; an N?-dimensional channel autocorrelation matrix formula (I) and a channel frequency domain autocorrelation matrix Ri from a transmitting antenna i to any receiving antenna are acquired, and a weight matrix W which is descrambled and denoised is calculated, wherein i=1, 2, . . . , NT, and NT is the number of antennae at a transmitting end; the estimation value HLS is corrected by using the weight matrix W to obtain a corrected estimation value HP-LMMSE. The method and device of the disclosure may obtain the performance as close as possible to the LMMSE technology through less prior statistic information, and have a simple implementation manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2013Publication date: August 20, 2015Inventors: Gaocai Xiong, Hongfeng Qin, Yue Xiao, Hongzhi Zhao
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Publication number: 20150181622Abstract: The embodiments of the present document provide a random access method and a receiver, wherein, the random access method includes: after starting up, a receiver performing cell search and downlink synchronization to obtain a time reference; the receiver obtaining a distance between itself and a base station; the receiver selecting a random access format according to parameters and a load condition of the system where it is located; the receiver obtaining a cell radius supported by the selected random access format, and calculating a line-of-sight transmission time delay if the cell radius is less than the distance; and based on the time reference, the receiver transmitting a random access subframe the line-of-sight transmission time delay in advance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2013Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventors: Bin Li, Xue Wang, Lei Li, Hongfeng Qin, Xiaoxiao Liu
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Publication number: 20150163829Abstract: A random access method and random access system for a terminal in a high-speed mobile environment are provided. Wherein, the method comprises: selecting a random access preamble format according to a preset cell coverage radius target value; judging whether using a restricted set of cyclic shift quantities pre-configured satisfies a requirement of the cell coverage radius target value under the selected random access preamble format; if not satisfying, selecting a cyclic shift quantity which satisfies the requirement of the cell coverage radius target value from a unrestricted set of the cyclic shift quantities pre-configured; and generating a random access signal according to the cyclic shift quantity and a pre-configured mother code, and performing access using the random access signal. Through the above-mentioned technical scheme, the embodiment of the present document provides a more perfect random access method and random access system for a terminal in a high-speed mobile environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2013Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: ZTE CorporationInventors: Lei Li, Xiaoxiao Liu, Bin Li, Hongfeng Qin, Xue Wang
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Publication number: 20150155924Abstract: Provided is a processing method and apparatus for performing space-time decoding on MIMO signals. The method includes: performing QR decomposition on a channel matrix H with a size of Nr×Nt in a MIMO system and performing an initialization operation, wherein Nt is the number of transmitting antennas and Nr is the number of receiving antennas; enumerating candidate constellation points of transmitting signals at each level of transmitting antennas according to an input parameter M=[M1, M2, . . .Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Hongfeng Qin, Gaocai Xiong, Yue Xiao, Hongzhi Zhao
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Publication number: 20150124716Abstract: A method for acquiring a format of a random access subframe and a receiver are provided. The method includes: according to a cell radius supported currently and a cell coverage radius decided by the length of ZC sequence and the size of Ncs, a receiver determining the length of preamble sequence in an extended random access subframe; according to the cell radius supported currently and a cell coverage radius decided by the length of GT, determining the lengths of CP and GT in the extended random access subframe; according to sampling rates of a system where the receiver is located and the lengths of the preamble sequence and CP and GT, respectively calculating the numbers of sampling points of preamble sequence and GT and CP; based on the above numbers of sampling points, calculating the length of extended random access subframe and determining the format of extended random access subframe.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2013Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: ZTE CORPORATIONInventors: Lei Li, Xue Wang, Bin Li, Hongfeng Qin, Xiaoxiao Liu
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Patent number: 8837614Abstract: The present invention provides a pilot-based timing offset estimation apparatus and method. The timing offset estimation apparatus includes: a pilot bit channel estimation module, configured to acquire pilot bit frequency-domain channel estimation values of target users through calculation on respective sub-carriers of the target users according to received frequency-domain demodulation reference symbols and local frequency-domain demodulation reference symbols; and a timing offset estimation module, configured to respectively perform timing offset estimation for each target user by using phase differences among the pilot bit frequency-domain channel estimation values on the respective sub-carriers. The present invention performs timing offset estimation for multiple users on the basis of the received pilot sequences, therefore provides more accurate measurement values for timing offset compensation and timing offset reporting, so as to reduce the influence of the timing offset on the receiver performance.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2010Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Ping Li, Hongfeng Qin
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Patent number: 8774034Abstract: A frequency offset estimation and correction method in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system is disclosed in present invention, including: obtaining a pilot frequency domain channel estimation value of a target user, and smoothing the channel estimation value in frequency domain; obtaining the link quality state of a receiver; adopting a history smoothing algorithm or a multi-branch attempt algorithm to perform frequency offset estimation and frequency offset compensation, performing frequency domain demodulation for the data for which frequency offset compensation has been performed, and outputting a link quality state parameter; and updating the link quality state of the receiver according to the link quality state parameter, determining the output value of this frequency offset estimation and outputting a history frequency offset value required by next frequency offset estimation according to the determined output value of this frequency offset estimation.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2010Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Ping Li, Zhaohua Zeng, Hongfeng Qin, Weiju Sun, Lujia Han, Jie Lei
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Publication number: 20120099631Abstract: The present invention provides a pilot-based timing offset estimation apparatus and method. The timing offset estimation apparatus includes: a pilot bit channel estimation module, configured to acquire pilot bit frequency-domain channel estimation values of target users through calculation on respective sub-carriers of the target users according to received frequency-domain demodulation reference symbols and local frequency-domain demodulation reference symbols; and a timing offset estimation module, configured to respectively perform timing offset estimation for each target user by using phase differences among the pilot bit frequency-domain channel estimation values on the respective sub-carriers. The present invention performs timing offset estimation for multiple users on the basis of the received pilot sequences, therefore provides more accurate measurement values for timing offset compensation and timing offset reporting, so as to reduce the influence of the timing offset on the receiver performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2010Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: ZTE CorporationInventors: Ping Li, Hongfeng Qin
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Publication number: 20120087263Abstract: A frequency offset estimation and correction method in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system is disclosed in present invention, including: obtaining a pilot frequency domain channel estimation value of a target user, and smoothing the channel estimation value in frequency domain; obtaining the link quality state of a receiver; adopting a history smoothing algorithm or a multi-branch attempt algorithm to perform frequency offset estimation and frequency offset compensation, performing frequency domain demodulation for the data for which frequency offset compensation has been performed, and outputting a link quality state parameter; and updating the link quality state of the receiver according to the link quality state parameter, determining the output value of this frequency offset estimation and outputting a history frequency offset value required by next frequency offset estimation according to the determined output value of this frequency offset estimation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2010Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicant: ZTE CORPORATIONInventors: Ping Li, Zhaohua Zeng, Hongfeng Qin, Weiju Sun, Lujia Han, Jie Lei
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Patent number: 7912154Abstract: A baseband processing method based on double sampling, including: subjecting a received signal to root raised cosine-filtering process; sampling said signal; conducting channel estimation for every user based on the sampled data; and conducting multi-user joint detection and demodulation for said data. Wherein, the step of sampling said signal includes the following steps: conducting double sampling for said signal, and the interval of the sampling being ½ chip; each chip selecting the average value of two sampling values as the sampling value of the chip; assembling the sampling value of every chip into a data stream.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2005Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Zhaohua Zeng, Hai Jiang, Ping Li, Hongfeng Qin
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Publication number: 20080310553Abstract: A baseband processing method based on double sampling, including: subjecting a received signal to root raised cosine-filtering process; sampling said signal; conducting channel estimation for every user based on the sampled data; and conducting multi-user joint detection and demodulation for said data. Wherein, the step of sampling said signal includes the following steps: conducting double sampling for said signal, and the interval of the sampling being ½ chip; each chip selecting the average value of two sampling values as the sampling value of the chip; assembling the sampling value of every chip into a data stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2005Publication date: December 18, 2008Applicant: ZTE CORPORATIONInventors: Zhaohua Zeng, Hai Jiang, Ping Li, Hongfeng Qin