Abstract: Disclosed are a data receiving apparatus that may discriminate a type of a received data frame, and a data transmission apparatus that may apply a constellation mapping scheme to a data frame so that a data receiving apparatus may discriminate the data frame in accordance with the constellation mapping scheme applied to the data frame.

Abstract: A wireless data transmission method and apparatus are provided for compensating a distortion due to a clipped amplitude when an amplitude of a signal is clipped to reduce a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) in a wireless communication system using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme and a transmit diversity method using an orthogonal coding. The wireless data transmission apparatus includes a coding unit which Space-Time block codes a first data stream into a plurality of second data streams, the plurality of second data streams being orthogonal to each other; an inverse Fourier transform unit which performs an inverse Fourier transform of each of the Space-Time block coded second data stream and generates a plurality of time domain signals; and a plurality of amplitude clipping units which clips an amplitude of each of the plurality of generated time domain signals.

Abstract: A relay-based communication system and method processing a signal without a cyclic prefix is provided. An apparatus for generating a relay signal includes a signal receiving unit which receives a source signal transmitted from a source node to a relay node and detects a received signal, a signal conversion unit which extracts samples corresponding to a first time duration from the received signal, sums the received signal and the extracted samples in a second time duration, and generates a converted received signal, a relay signal generation unit which generates a relay signal cooperating with the source signal based on the converted received signal according to a space frequency block code (SFBC) scheme, and a signal transmission unit which transmits the generated relay signal to a destination node.

Abstract: An apparatus for correcting clipping distortion of a receiver system includes: an equalizer which generates a first equalization signal by equalizing a frequency domain clipping signal via a first equalization coefficient correcting a channel distortion, and generates a second equalization signal by equalizing the frequency domain clipping signal via a second equalization coefficient correcting the clipping distortion and the channel distortion; and a signal reconstruction unit which receives the first equalization signal and the second equalization signal from the equalizer, determines a transmission symbol by performing a hard decision with respect to the second equalization, and reconstructs a signal by using an amplitude of the transmission symbol and a phase of the first equalization signal when a level of the amplitude of the transmission symbol is greater than or equal to a reference value.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting and/or receiving a signal in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system are provided. An apparatus for transmitting a signal in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system includes an input unit to receive NT symbol streams in parallel, where NT is an integer greater than or equal to 2, a multiple signal generating unit to generate NT multiple signals having a transmit diversity gain by applying a cyclic delay of a different pattern to each of the NT symbol streams, and a multiple signal providing unit to provide the generated NT multiple signals to NT transmit antennas, respectively, based on a predetermined transmit antenna index of each of the NT transmit antennas.

Abstract: A transmitter and/or receiver for performing frequency domain equalization is provided. A transmitter includes a pilot position determination unit for determining positions for inserting pilots in a frequency domain based on frequency spectrums of data, and a pilot insertion unit for inserting the pilots between the frequency spectrums of the data according to the determined positions for inserting the pilots.

Abstract: A space frequency block code signal relaying system is provided. The space frequency block code signal relaying system includes a signal detecting unit which receives, via a radio channel, a source signal sent from a source station and detects the received signal; a relay signal generation unit which generates a relay signal corresponding with the source signal transmitted from the source station to a destination node based on the received signal, the source signal and the relay signal being signals encoded in a Space Frequency Block Code (SFBC) scheme; and a signal transmitting unit which transmits the relay signal to the destination node.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for compensating a distortion due to a clipped amplitude when an amplitude of a signal is clipped to reduce a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) in a wireless communication system using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme and a transmit diversity method using an orthogonal coding. A wireless data transmission apparatus which transmits a data stream via a plurality of antennas, the apparatus including: a coding unit which Space-Time block codes a first data stream into a plurality of second data streams, the plurality of second data streams being orthogonal to each other; an inverse Fourier transform unit which performs an inverse Fourier transform of each of the Space-Time block coded second data stream and generates a plurality of time domain signals; and a plurality of amplitude clipping units which clips an amplitude of each of the plurality of generated time domain signals.

Abstract: An apparatus for correcting clipping distortion of a receiver system includes: an equalizer which generates a first equalization signal by equalizing a frequency domain clipping signal via a first equalization coefficient correcting a channel distortion, and generates a second equalization signal by equalizing the frequency domain clipping signal via a second equalization coefficient correcting the clipping distortion and the channel distortion; and a signal reconstruction unit which receives the first equalization signal and the second equalization signal from the equalizer, determines a transmission symbol by performing a hard decision with respect to the second equalization, and reconstructs a signal by using an amplitude of the transmission symbol and a phase of the first equalization signal when a level of the amplitude of the transmission symbol is greater than or equal to a reference value.