Patents by Inventor Xiqi Gao
Xiqi Gao 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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Patent number: 11954681Abstract: A blockchain-enhanced open Internet of Things (IoT) access architecture includes an access point, a number of IoT devices, a hash access mechanism, a blockchain mining network, and a blockchain enabling mechanism that manages network access of the IoT device. The blockchain-enhanced open IoT access architecture provided in the present invention provides a secure, reliable, fair, and short-packet access service for a plurality of devices in an IoT network by using features of a blockchain such as distributed storage, tamper-proofing, and traceability, thereby promoting the trust and cooperation between the devices and ensuring the security and efficiency of the network in the large-scale untrustworthy IoT network. The blockchain-enhanced open IoT access architecture in the present invention can provide secure and reliable IoT access with low latency and a high value in practice.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Xintong Ling, Yuwei Le, Bowen Zhang, Jiaheng Wang, Xiqi Gao
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Patent number: 11831393Abstract: The present invention discloses a large-scale MIMO satellite mobile communication method and system. A satellite or gateway station uses spatial angle information of user terminals to group the users to be served in the coverage area to form space division user groups, wherein the user terminals in the same group use the same time-frequency resources to communicate with the satellite, while the user terminals in different groups use different time-frequency resources to communicate with the satellite. For the user terminals in the same space division user group, the satellite or gateway station uses statistical channel information of each user terminal to calculate a downlink precoding vector and an uplink receiving processing vector corresponding to each user terminal, and then uses the obtained vectors to perform downlink precoding transmission and uplink received signal processing.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiqi Gao, Li You, Kexin Li, Jiaheng Wang, Wenjin Wang
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Publication number: 20230327752Abstract: The present invention discloses a satellite-based blockchain architecture, including a terrestrial blockchain miner network, a constellation system, and a consensus protocol coordinating the constellation system and the terrestrial blockchain miner network. In each round, a satellite generates an oracle, and satellites broadcast the oracle to the terrestrial blockchain miner network. The oracle selects a terrestrial miner as a winner of the current round based on a specific rule. The winning terrestrial miner has the right to generate a new block in the round, and broadcasts the new block to other miners by using the terrestrial blockchain miner network. Other miners receiving the new block check the validity of the block, and if the check succeeds, the block is broadcast to other miners by using the terrestrial blockchain miner network.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2021Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Xintong LING, Pengcheng CHEN, Zheng GAO, Yuwei LE, Jiaheng WANG, Li YOU, Xiqi GAO
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Patent number: 11658711Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a skywave large-scale MIMO communication method, model, and system. A skywave communication base station in a short waveband is constructed using a large-scale antenna array, wherein skywave large-scale MIMO communication is carried out between the skywave communication base station and a user terminal in a coverage area by ionospheric reflection. The skywave communication base station determines a spacing of the large-scale antenna array according to a maximum operating frequency, and communicates with the user terminal based on a TDD communication mode, wherein a skywave large-scale MIMO signal is transmitted based on an OFDM modulation mode or a power efficiency improvement modulation mode. The skywave communication base station selects a communication carrier frequency within a short waveband range according to a real-time ionospheric channel characteristic, and adaptively selects an OFDM modulation parameter and a signal frame structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiqi Gao, Xianglong Yu, Anan Lu
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Patent number: 11646776Abstract: The present invention discloses a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) beam domain robust precoding transmission method and system. The method is based on base station (BS)-side and user-side refined sampling steering vector matrices, and considers the influence of channel aging caused by mobility, where obtained channel state information is refined beam domain a posteriori statistical channel information including channel mean and variance information.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiqi Gao, Anan Lu
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Publication number: 20230044988Abstract: A fiber enabled optical wireless communication (FE-OWC) system and method is provided. An optical antenna composed of an optical fiber transceiving port array and a lens or a reflecting mirror is used to generate optical beams in different directions, such that full-beam coverage of a communication area is implemented. The optical antenna is connected to an optical chain by an optical fiber, the optical chain realizes mutual conversion of an optical signal and an electrical signal, and a baseband signal processing unit which is in electrical signal connection with the optical chain realizes user scheduling, transceiving signal processing, etc. Multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) or massive MIMO or beam division multiple access optical wireless communication between a base station and user terminals is implemented by using the optical beams. The FE-OWC system and method may support ultra-high-rate user data transmission and system throughput, and have a low complexity.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiqi GAO, Chen SUN, Jiaheng WANG
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Publication number: 20220393730Abstract: Disclosed are a method and system for acquiring massive MIMO beam domain statistical channel information. A refined beam domain channel model involved in the disclosed method is based on a refined sampling steering vector matrix. Compared with a traditional DFT matrix-based beam domain channel model, when antenna size is limited, said model is closer to a physical channel model, and provides a model basis for solving the problem of the universality of massive MIMO for various typical mobile scenarios under a constraint on antenna size. The present invention provides a method for acquiring massive MIMO refined beam domain a priori statistical channel information and a posteriori statistical channel information, the a posteriori statistical channel information comprising mean and variance information of the a posteriori channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Anan LU, Xiqi GAO
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Publication number: 20220376750Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a skywave large-scale MIMO communication method, model, and system. A skywave communication base station in a short waveband is constructed using a large-scale antenna array, wherein skywave large-scale MIMO communication is carried out between the skywave communication base station and a user terminal in a coverage area by ionospheric reflection. The skywave communication base station determines a spacing of the large-scale antenna array according to a maximum operating frequency, and communicates with the user terminal based on a TDD communication mode, wherein a skywave large-scale MIMO signal is transmitted based on an OFDM modulation mode or a power efficiency improvement modulation mode. The skywave communication base station selects a communication carrier frequency within a short waveband range according to a real-time ionospheric channel characteristic, and adaptively selects an OFDM modulation parameter and a signal frame structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiqi GAO, Xianglong YU, Anan LU
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Publication number: 20220263554Abstract: The present invention discloses a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) beam domain robust precoding transmission method and system. The method is based on base station (BS)-side and user-side refined sampling steering vector matrices, and considers the influence of channel aging caused by mobility, where obtained channel state information is refined beam domain a posteriori statistical channel information including channel mean and variance information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Xiqi GAO, Anan LU
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Patent number: 11419068Abstract: A large-scale MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) wireless transmission method for millimeter wave/Terahertz networks is provided. In order to reduce the interruption of propagation in the millimeter wave/Terahertz band, a plurality of cells are combined into a wireless transmission network, the base station in each cell is equipped with a large-scale antenna array, and a unitary transformation matrix is used to achieve large-scale beam coverage for user terminals in the entire network. Moreover, in order to reduce the influence of the multipath and Doppler effects on transmission performance, received signals are synchronized for time and frequency in each receiving beam of a user terminal. The method allocates power for signal transmission according to the statistic information of synchronized equivalent channels, and gives an optimal power allocation matrix by iterative solution based on the CCCP (concave-convex procedure) and the deterministic equivalent method.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiqi Gao, Li You, Xu Chen, Yufei Huang, Xueyuan Shi, Siran He, Wenjin Wang
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Publication number: 20220245634Abstract: A blockchain-enhanced open Internet of Things (IoT) access architecture includes an access point, a number of IoT devices, a hash access mechanism, a blockchain mining network, and a blockchain enabling mechanism that manages network access of the IoT device. The blockchain-enhanced open IoT access architecture provided in the present invention provides a secure, reliable, fair, and short-packet access service for a plurality of devices in an IoT network by using features of a blockchain such as distributed storage, tamper-proofing, and traceability, thereby promoting the trust and cooperation between the devices and ensuring the security and efficiency of the network in the large-scale untrustworthy IoT network. The blockchain-enhanced open IoT access architecture in the present invention can provide secure and reliable IoT access with low latency and a high value in practice.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2020Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Xintong LING, Yuwei LE, Bowen ZHANG, Jiaheng WANG, Xiqi GAO
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Publication number: 20210368455Abstract: A large-scale MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) wireless transmission method for millimeter wave/Terahertz networks is provided. In order to reduce the interruption of propagation in the millimeter wave/Terahertz band, a plurality of cells are combined into a wireless transmission network, the base station in each cell is equipped with a large-scale antenna array, and a unitary transformation matrix is used to achieve large-scale beam coverage for user terminals in the entire network. Moreover, in order to reduce the influence of the multipath and Doppler effects on transmission performance, received signals are synchronized for time and frequency in each receiving beam of a user terminal. The method allocates power for signal transmission according to the statistic information of synchronized equivalent channels, and gives an optimal power allocation matrix by iterative solution based on the CCCP (concave-convex procedure) and the deterministic equivalent method.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiqi GAO, Li YOU, Xu CHEN, Yufei HUANG, Xueyuan SHI, Siran HE, Wenjin WANG
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Patent number: 11177863Abstract: A massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) robust precoding transmission method under imperfect channel state information (CSI), wherein the imperfect CSI obtained by the base station (BS) side of the massive MIMO system is modeled as an a posteriori statistical channel model including channel mean and channel variance information. The model considers the effects of channel estimation error, channel aging and spatial correlation. The BS performs the robust precoding transmission by using the a posteriori statistical channel model, so that the universality problem of the massive MIMO to various typical moving scenarios can be solved, and high spectral efficiency is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2017Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiqi Gao, Anan Lu, Wen Zhong
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Patent number: 11139908Abstract: The invention discloses a beam domain optical wireless communication method and system. A base station is equipped with an array of optical transceiver ports or transmitter/receiver ports and a lens, each optical transceiver port forms a beam with centralized energy through the lens, and the base station generates beams in different directions by using the optical transceiver port array and the lens, thereby realizing multi-beam coverage or large-scale beam coverage in a communication region. The base station transmits/receives signals of multiple or a large number of user terminals by using channel state information of each user terminal, and different optical transceiver ports transmit/receive signals in different directions, thereby realizing simultaneous communication and bidirectional communication between the base station and different user terminals.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiqi Gao, Chen Sun, Wenjin Wang, Li You, Anan Lu, Wen Zhong
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Publication number: 20210288715Abstract: The present invention discloses a large-scale MIMO satellite mobile communication method and system. A satellite or gateway station uses spatial angle information of user terminals to group the users to be served in the coverage area to form space division user groups, wherein the user terminals in the same group use the same time-frequency resources to communicate with the satellite, while the user terminals in different groups use different time-frequency resources to communicate with the satellite. For the user terminals in the same space division user group, the satellite or gateway station uses statistical channel information of each user terminal to calculate a downlink precoding vector and an uplink receiving processing vector corresponding to each user terminal, and then uses the obtained vectors to perform downlink precoding transmission and uplink received signal processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2019Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Xiqi GAO, Li YOU, Kexin LI, Jiaheng WANG, Wenjin WANG
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Publication number: 20210226721Abstract: The invention discloses a beam domain optical wireless communication method and system. A base station is equipped with an array of optical transceiver ports or transmitter/receiver ports and a lens, each optical transceiver port forms a beam with centralized energy through the lens, and the base station generates beams in different directions by using the optical transceiver port array and the lens, thereby realizing multi-beam coverage or large-scale beam coverage in a communication region. The base station transmits/receives signals of multiple or a large number of user terminals by using channel state information of each user terminal, and different optical transceiver ports transmit/receive signals in different directions, thereby realizing simultaneous communication and bidirectional communication between the base station and different user terminals.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2017Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiqi GAO, Chen SUN, Wenjin WANG, Li YOU, Anan LU, Wen ZHONG
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Patent number: 10998968Abstract: An EnodeB or a transmitting device intermittently generates synchronization signals, and then performs perfect omnidirectional pre-coding processing on the synchronization signals; the synchronization signals after perfect omnidirectional pre-coding processing pass through a transmission channel and are then received by a mobile terminal or a receiving device, and the mobile terminal or the receiving device uses the received synchronization signals and local replicas of the synchronization signals for receiving and synchronization processing. An EnodeB or a transmitting device generates vector signals via low-dimensional space-time coding, and then performs perfect omnidirectional pre-coding processing on the vector signals; the transmitted signals after perfect omnidirectional pre-coding processing pass through a transmission channel and are then received by a mobile terminal or a receiving device, and the mobile terminal or the receiving device uses the received signals for signal receiving processing.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2016Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiqi Gao, Xin Meng
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Publication number: 20200274613Abstract: An EnodeB or a transmitting device intermittently generates synchronization signals, and then performs perfect omnidirectional pre-coding processing on the synchronization signals; the synchronization signals after perfect omnidirectional pre-coding processing pass through a transmission channel and are then received by a mobile terminal or a receiving device, and the mobile terminal or the receiving device uses the received synchronization signals and local replicas of the synchronization signals for receiving and synchronization processing. An EnodeB or a transmitting device generates vector signals via low-dimensional space-time coding, and then performs perfect omnidirectional pre-coding processing on the vector signals; the transmitted signals after perfect omnidirectional pre-coding processing pass through a transmission channel and are then received by a mobile terminal or a receiving device, and the mobile terminal or the receiving device uses the received signals for signal receiving processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2016Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Xiqi GAO, Xin MENG
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Publication number: 20200204226Abstract: A massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) robust precoding transmission method under imperfect channel state information (CSI), wherein the imperfect CSI obtained by the base station (BS) side of the massive MIMO system is modeled as an a posteriori statistical channel model including channel mean and channel variance information. The model considers the effects of channel estimation error, channel aging and spatial correlation. The BS performs the robust precoding transmission by using the a posteriori statistical channel model, so that the universality problem of the massive MIMO to various typical moving scenarios can be solved, and high spectral efficiency is achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2017Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiqi GAO, Anan LU, Wen ZHONG
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Patent number: 10541850Abstract: Signal transmitting/receiving electronic devices or terminals in the present disclosure are configured to conduct per-beam signal synchronization in massive MIMO communication with a signal receiving/transmitting device or base station. During the massive MIMO communication, the devices or terminals are configured to transmit/receive signals via a set of beams to or from the signal receiving/transmitting device or base station. For beam domain signal of each individual beam of the plurality beams, the devices or terminals are configured to determine target time adjustments based on time shifts of the beam domain signals induced by multipath effect and target frequency adjustments based on frequency offsets of the beam domain signals induced by the Doppler effect; adjust time independent variables of the beam domain signals by the time adjustments; and adjust frequency independent variables of the beam domain signals by the frequency adjustments.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2016Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiqi Gao, Li You, Wenjin Wang