Abstract: A MIMO wireless system includes a transmitter having a parser that parses a bit stream into multiple spatial data streams and multiple interleavers corresponding to the multiple spatial data streams, where each interleaver interleaves the bits in the corresponding spatial data stream by performing multiple column rotations and row rotation, to increase diversity of the wireless system. The MIMO wireless system also includes a receiver that has deinterleavers that deinterleaves spatial bit streams transmitted by the transmitter.

Abstract: A system and method for a simplified Maximum Likelihood (ML) decoding (203) for MIMO systems is provided. The full ML decoding gives the lower bound of the decoding for CC coded MIMO systems. However, the computation cost is too high to be implemented in real system. Many alternative methods have been proposed for the decoding. Among them, weighted Zero Forcing (WZF) is one that can give affordable performance with reasonable computation complexity but there are several dB of performance gap for the WZF decoding and ML decoding. This present invention discloses a decoding system and method having improved performance over WZF decoding with affordable implementation complexity.

Abstract: A MIMO wireless system includes a transmitter having a parser that parses a bit stream into multiple spatial data streams and multiple interleavers corresponding to the multiple spatial data streams, where each interleaver interleaves the bits in the corresponding spatial data stream by performing column skip operation and frequency rotation, to increase diversity of the wireless system. The MIMO wireless system also includes a receiver that has deinterleavers that deinterleaves spatial bit streams transmitted by the transmitter.

Abstract: A MIMO wireless system includes a transmitter that has a transmitter having a parser that parses a bit stream into multiple spatial data streams and multiple interleavers corresponding to the multiple spatial data streams, where each interleaver interleaves the bits in the corresponding spatial data stream by performing multiple column rotation to increase diversity of the wireless system. The MIMO wireless system also includes a receiver that has deinterleavers that deinterleaves spatial bit streams transmitted by the transmitter.

Abstract: A system and method for a simplified Maximum Likelihood (ML) decoding (203) for MIMO systems is provided. The full ML decoding gives the lower bound of the decoding for CC coded MIMO systems. However, the computation cost is too high to be implemented in real system. Many alternative methods have been proposed for the decoding. Among them, weighted Zero Forcing (WZF) is one that can give affordable performance with reasonable computation complexity but there are several dB of performance gap for the WZF decoding and ML decoding. This present invention discloses a decoding system and method having improved performance over WZF decoding with affordable implementation complexity.

Abstract: A system and method is provided wherein channel state information assisted MIMO transmission based on singular value decomposition (SVD) (204) (304) simplifies the decoding process. The present invention is a joint source and channel coding system and method for robust wireless multimedia communication. Using the fact that SVD redistributes the channel energy in a descending way, the base layer of the Fine-Grained-Scalability (FGS) (208) is mapped to the highest signal-to-noise (SNR) path to obtain better protection, while other enhancement layers are mapped to other paths such that less important layers are mapped to lower SNR paths in the SVD -decomposed channel. A multiple description code (MDC) (207) is also used in this manner such that at least one coded stream is provided more protection because of the high SNR. This invention pertains to any MIMO based wireless multimedia communication system.

Abstract: Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems are candidates for higher data rate wireless communication systems. Currently, for a single input single output (SISO) 1802.11a system can provide a transmission data rate up to 54 Mbps. The present invention is a 2 by 2 Multiple In Multiple Out (MIMO) system having a decoding apparatus that increases the data rate to over 100 Mbps but at a computation cost about the same as for optimal decoding for a SISO system and 1/64 of the optimal decoding for a 2 by 2 MIMO system. At a bit error rate (BER) of 10-4 level, the 2 by 2 MIMO system of the present invention provides double the transmission data rate of the SISO system with approximately the same signal to noise ratio (SNR).

Abstract: An improved interleaver design to fully explore the diversity of the MIMO OFDM systems provides higher diversity gain than usual. A method for wireless data communication using such interleaver design implements parsing a bit stream into multiple spatial data streams, interleaving the bits in each spatial data stream by performing bit circulation to increase diversity of the wireless system, and transmitting the bits of each spatial data stream.

Abstract: A method and associated systems for implementing MIMO communication systems are disclosed. The systems comprise at least one encoder (120a, 120b) for Reed-Solomon encoding a corresponding input data stream of data packets; at least one interleaver (124a, 124b) for interleaving bits of a corresponding encoded input data stream, at least one mapper (128a, 128b) for mapping the interleaved bits of a corresponding encoded input data stream, at least one inverse FFT (132a, 132b) for determining transforms of the mapped interleaved bits of a corresponding encoded bit stream, at least one cyclic prefix unit (136a, 136b) for determining a cyclic prefix of the transformed mapped interleaved bits of a corresponding encoded bit stream; and, at least one pulse shaper (140a, 140b) for shaping pulses of a corresponding encoded bit stream and means for dividing a data stream into a plurality of input data steams, the input data streams associated with a corresponding communication channel.

Abstract: A magnitude only equalizer equalizes a magnitude of a received wireless signal without regard to phase distortions introduced, and transmits the magnitude equalized signal to a timing recovery loop for improved correlation peak detection in a sync based timing recovery scheme. A channel equalizer receiving the output signal from the timing recovery loop equalizes the signal and corrects any phase distortions introduced by the magnitude only equalizer. The magnitude only equalizer includes at least one filter utilizing only real coefficients and constrained such that the direct term of the overall filter structure within the magnitude only equalizer is unity.

Abstract: A MIMO communication system implements an interleaver design with multiple encoders for more than two transmit antennas for high throughput WLAN communication systems. Multiple encoders are utilized in the transmitter and multiple decoders are utilized in the receiver, wherein each encoder operates at lower clock speed than would be necessary with a single encoder. In conjunction with using multiple encoders, a modified interleaving function for each spatial stream processing allows fully exploring the diversity gains. The provided interleaving function is suitable for transmitter architectures with multiple encoders. Similarly, a modified de-interleaving function is provided that is suitable for receiver architectures with multiple decoders.

Abstract: Bit level, rather than symbol level, diversity combining is employed within a wireless communications receiver. Channel estimates and bit metrics are separately computed for signals received by different antenna elements. Bit metrics are calculated by determining a least squares cumulative difference between all bits within the received symbol and corresponding bits within constellation symbols as modified by the channel estimate. The separately-determined bit metrics are then combined for decoding. Performance improvements over both single antenna systems and multiple antenna systems with symbol level diversity combining are achieved.

Abstract: A MIMO wireless system includes a transmitter having a parser that parses a bit stream into multiple spatial data streams and multiple interleavers corresponding to the multiple spatial data streams, where each interleaver interleaves the bits in the corresponding spatial data stream by performing frequency rotation after an interleaving operation, to increase diversity of the wireless system. The MIMO wireless system also includes a receiver that has deinterleavers that deinterleaves spatial bit streams transmitted by the transmitter.

Abstract: A MIMO wireless system includes a transmitter having a parser that parses a bit stream into multiple spatial data streams and multiple interleavers corresponding to the multiple spatial data streams, where each interleaver interleaves the bits in the corresponding spatial data stream by performing column skip operation and frequency rotation, to increase diversity of the wireless system. The MIMO wireless system also includes a receiver that has deinterleavers that deinterleaves spatial bit streams transmitted by the transmitter.

Abstract: An improved interleaver design to fully explore the diversity of the MIMO OFDM systems provides higher diversity gain than usual. A method for wireless data communication using such interleaver design implements parsing a bit stream into multiple spatial data streams, interleaving the bits in each spatial data stream by performing bit circulation and column swapping to increase diversity of the wireless system, and transmitting the bits of each spatial data stream.

Abstract: A MIMO wireless system includes a transmitter having a parser that parses a bit stream into multiple spatial data streams and multiple interleavers corresponding to the multiple spatial data streams, where each interleaver interleaves the bits in the corresponding spatial data stream by performing multiple column rotations and row rotation, to increase diversity of the wireless system. The MIMO wireless system also includes a receiver that has deinterleavers that deinterleaves spatial bit streams transmitted by the transmitter.

Abstract: A method of communicating data over a wireless local area network according to an IEEE 802.11 standard for unifying Multi-MCS-Multi-Receiver Aggregation (MMRA) and Single-MCS-Multi-Receiver Aggregation (SMRA), the improvement including modifying SMRA format such that MMRA treats SMRA as a special case of MMRA, thereby unifying SMRA and MMRA.

Abstract: A method of communicating data over a wireless local area network according to an IEEE 802.11n proposal for Multi-MCS-Multi-Receiver Aggregation (MMRA), the improvement providing a modified PPDU format with MMRA signaling wherein the HT-SIG format is preserved. Instead of increasing the length of HT-SIG, a modified PPDU format with MMRA signaling is provided where the HT-SIG-MMRA is placed after the HT-LTF. In this manner, the original HT-SIG format is preserved, while accommodating the variable length of HT-SIG-MMRA. Further, in a modified HT-SIG structure, the Length and MCS of the HT-SIG-MMRA signaling part is placed in the LENGTH field and MCS field of HT-SIG1 (4 us), respectively, without changing the length of existing HT-SIG (8 us).

Abstract: An improved interleaver design to fully explore the diversity of the MIMO OFDM systems provides higher diversity gain than usual. A method for wireless data communication using such interleaver design implements parsing a bit stream into multiple spatial data streams, interleaving the bits in each spatial data stream by performing bit circulation to increase diversity of the wireless system, and transmitting the bits of each spatial data stream.

Abstract: A method for a beam forming configuration is provided. A representation of a 3D polygon is formed from a plurality of blocks. The blocks are arranged according to a frequency, a time, and a space within the 3D polygon. Based on the frequency, the time, and the space of an electronic signal, one of the blocks is selected. An equation that is based on the block or to the block and the blocks relationship to one or more of the other blocks is used to form an output.