Abstract: In one or more embodiments, in a communications terminal an estimated channel matrix is constructed based on a codebook. A modified estimated channel matrix is calculated based on both the estimated channel matrix and a protection matrix, and a channel submatrix is selected from the modified estimated channel matrix. A selection matrix is calculated from the channel submatrix, and fed back to be used in generating a steering matrix.

Abstract: A modem device includes a modulation unit 12 that generates a modulated signal, a frequency conversion unit 15 that generates an intermediate frequency signal from an external input signal, and a demodulation unit 14 that demodulates the modulated or intermediate frequency signal and generates a reception signal. In a communication mode, the modulation unit 12 outputs the modulated signal to a external device 50, the frequency conversion unit 15 generates the intermediate frequency signal, and the demodulation unit 14 demodulates the intermediate frequency signal and generates the reception signal. In an adjustment mode, the modulation unit 12 outputs the modulated signal to the demodulation unit 14, and the demodulation unit 14 generates the reception signal from the modulated signal and adjusts an amplitude of the transmission signal based on the reception signal.

Abstract: A digital broadband broadcast receiver is configured to receive bits transmitted in transmission symbols, such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. The reliability of the received bits is scaled with a non-linear scaling function which is in relation to the amount of interfered part of a received transmission symbol. In the scaling, a burst state information (BSI) and/or channel state information (CSI) method can be used.

Abstract: A method and system for a reconfigurable orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) chip supporting single weight diversity are provided. The reconfigurable OFDM chip may be configured to process signals such as IEEE 802.11, 802.16, and digital video broadcasting (DVB). The OFDM chip may generate channel weights to be applied to signals received in receive antennas. The weighted signals may be combined into a single received signal and channel estimates may be generated from the single received signal. Updated channel weights may be generated from the generated channel estimates. Updates to the channel weights may be performed dynamically. The configurable OFDM chip may be utilized to provide collaborative cellular and OFDM-based communication. The reconfigurable OFDM chip and the cellular chip may communicate data and/or control information via a memory coupled to a common bus.

Abstract: Automatic gain control in a receiver. A method for controlling operating range of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) by an automatic gain control circuit includes estimating a peak-to-average ratio corresponding to an analog signal from digital samples of the analog signal. The method includes determining a peak value corresponding to the analog signal based on the peak-to-average ratio. Further, the method includes maintaining magnitude of the analog signal at an input of the ADC and gain of the receiver based on the peak value.

Abstract: Method for transmitting a signal using a transmission power mask is disclosed. The signal is transmitted by a transceiver A and is connected to a transceiver B via at least one physical link; wherein the transmission power mask is adapted according to a transfer function relative to the impedance of the physical link, so as the power lost during signal transmission is taken into account.

Abstract: There is provided a clock generating apparatus for generating a recovered clock by recovering a clock from an edge of a received signal, including a recovered clock generating section that generates the recovered clock, a multi-strobe generating section that generates a plurality of strobes with different phases, in accordance with a pulse of the recovered clock, a detecting section that detects a position of an edge of the received signal relative to the strobes, by referring to values of the received signal obtained at respective timings of the strobes, and an adjusting section that adjusts a phase of the recovered clock, in accordance with the position of the edge of the received signal.

Abstract: Provided is a radio base station apparatus capable of transmitting a control signal efficiently even in radio communications using a system band that includes a plurality of component carriers. In the radio base station apparatus, control signals of transport blocks corresponding to the plural component carriers are coded jointly and the coded control signal is assigned to one or plural component carriers to be transmitted. A mobile terminal apparatus receives data from the radio base station apparatus, separates the control signal from the received data and decodes the separated control signal thereby to obtain control information of the transport blocks of the corresponding component carriers.

Abstract: An approach is provided to mitigate phase noise by correcting common phase error and inter-carrier-interference in a received signal. The approach involves determining a received signal includes phase noise comprising at least a common phase error component and an inter-carrier-interference component. The approach also involves causing the common phase error to be corrected based on one or more pilot carriers. The approach further involves causing an estimate of a main signal component to be subtracted from the one or more pilot carriers. The approach additionally involves determining a sequence of estimated coefficients of a multiplicative phase noise sequence. The approach also involves causing the inter-carrier-inference to be corrected by processing the multiplicative phase noise sequence using the sequence of estimated coefficients. The approach further involves causing an equalized data signal to be output based on the corrected common phase error and the corrected inter-carrier-interference.

Abstract: An OFDM receiver receives OFDM symbols in the frequency domain and comb filters and then punctures the OFDM symbols to leave symbols with actual pilot information and with null values at the data symbols. The receiver provides the punctured OFDM symbols to an OFDM symbol queue. A virtual pilot interpolator is coupled to the punctured OFDM symbol storage to generate virtual pilot information introduced to OFDM symbols. The interpolator may be a two dimensional Wiener filter. The receiver also includes a time domain channel estimator that processes a first OFDM symbol including virtual pilot information to generate a channel impulse response for the first OFDM symbol. A frequency equalizer equalizes the OFDM symbol in response to the channel impulse response for the first OFDM symbol.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and a method of receiving signals and corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to an efficient L1 signaling method for an efficient transmitter and an efficient receiver using the efficient L1 signaling method for an efficient cable broadcasting.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for adaptively selecting a communications mode in high frequency systems. A first dual-mode device having capabilities of using two or more high frequency communications modes, such as OFDM and SC modulation, may transmit a signal to a second dual-mode device with the same capabilities. The second dual-mode device may compute a channel characteristic associated with a high frequency communications channel and select an optimal high frequency communications mode. The second dual-mode device may transmit information indicative of the channel characteristic or the selected communications mode to the first dual-mode device. The first dual-mode device may select and operate using the optimal high frequency communications mode based on the information received from the second dual-mode device. The first and second dual-mode devices may communicate using the selected high frequency communications mode.

Abstract: A RF digital to analog converter has a first capacitor arrangement, a first common node, and a first controller. The first capacitor arrangement has multiple switchable capacitor paths arranged in parallel. Respective switchable capacitor paths have a switchable element and a capacitor coupled in series. The first common node is connected to the multiple switchable capacitor paths. The first controller receives a baseband signal having a component, and a local oscillator (LO) signal. The first controller combines the component and the LO signal to obtain a first modulation signal. The first controller controls the multiple switchable capacitor paths of the first capacitor arrangement with the first modulation signal.

Abstract: A scheme determines the first significant path (FSP) of a received multipath signal, from data defining the relative delay and the amplitude of the individual signal paths occurring in a series of time frames. The scheme includes filtering the data to spread the signal paths, performing a persistence test between frames to reject spurious signal paths, combining the energy of the signal paths in a frame, applying a test to determine the time at which the combined energy satisfies a criterion, and selecting the FSP dependent on that time. The combined energy may be evaluated within a sliding window, and the position of the window within the frame determined that maximizes the combined energy. Alternatively, the combined energy may be evaluated as the cumulative energy through the frame, and the position determined at which the cumulative energy reaches a threshold.

Abstract: A method includes reading operation parameters from a non-volatile memory located in a pluggable module that is coupled to a host module; processing the operational parameters with a processor located in the host module to control operation of a predistortion circuit located in the host module; adding predistortion to a signal with the predistortion circuit located in the host module and then sending the predistorted signal to the pluggable module. An apparatus includes a host module including a predistortion circuit and a processor coupled to the predistortion circuit; and a pluggable module coupled to the host module, wherein the pluggable module includes a non-volatile memory containing operational parameters for the predistortion circuit of the host module, wherein the operational parameters are processed by the processor of the host module to control the predistortion circuit of the host module.

Abstract: A signal generator for a transmitter or a receiver for transmitting or receiving RF-signals according to a given communication protocol includes an oscillator and a mismatch compensator. The oscillator is configured to provide a signal generator output signal having a signal generator output frequency and comprises a fine tuning circuit for providing a fine adjustment of the signal generator output frequency based on a fine tuning signal and a coarse tuning circuit for providing a course adjustment of the signal generator output frequency based on a coarse tuning signal.

Abstract: A serial-parallel converter generates a subcarrier modulation signal from a modulation signal which is generated from the input signal by a modulator. An IFFT unit performs an inverse fast Fourier transformation on the subcarrier modulation signal. A divider divides a calculation result to generate first subdata. A disperser adds dispersion coefficients to elements of first subdata. A sorter generates second subdata from post-dispersion first subdata. An operator performs a predetermined calculation using elements in the same line of the post-dispersion first subdata and second subdata. A corrector subtracts correction coefficients from elements of post-average first subdata. A synthesizer arranges post-correction first subdata in positions at the time of division and synthesizes them to generate a baseband signal. A transmitter generates a transmission signal to transmit.

Abstract: A broadcast receiver suitable for receiving broadcast signals transferred by use of signal format of IBOC system. The broadcast receiver comprises a receiving means that holds information related to channels that can be acquired by a digital signal decoding process. If information related to a channel is to be used and is held by the information holding means, then it is used.

Abstract: Methods for detecting and/or indicating the presence of valid data and threshold setting and data detection circuitry are disclosed. The threshold setting and data detection circuitry and related methods may be useful for fast and accurate reception of optical signals. The detection circuit generally comprises (i) a first circuit configured to regulate or control a DC offset of a differential input signal, and (ii) a second circuit coupled to the first circuit, the second circuit configured to indicate the presence of a data signal at the differential input signal when a voltage difference between true and complementary nodes of the differential input signal is above a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: Adaptive de-noise filtering of signals is disclosed. A signal may be identified and a noise level corresponding to noise associated with the signal may be determined. The noise level may be determined by isolating the noise from the signal and generating a metric indicative of the noise level. A threshold noise level may be identified. A cutoff frequency may be determined based at least in part on the noise level and the threshold noise level, and, optionally, based on one or more characteristics associated with a low pass filter. The signal may be low pass filtered based at least in part on the cutoff frequency to generate a filtered signal. Additional signals may be identified and filtered in accordance with respective corresponding cutoff frequencies such that noise levels associated with the additional filtered signals and the filtered signal may be substantially the same and at or below the threshold noise level.

Abstract: A mixer for the elimination of harmonic mixing in signal transmission is presented. The mixer incorporates a mixing unit and a modulation output unit. The mixing unit receives an input signal and a modulated signal, and outputs an output signal after signal mixing. The modulation output unit is for the generation of modulated signals, which are usually pulse-width modulated. The modulation output unit includes a delta sigma modulator and a digital domain code generator. The delta sigma modulator outputs the modulated signal responding to the received oscillation signal and digital domain code, the digital domain code generator generates the digital domain code in order to provide digital domain sine wave code for the use of the delta sigma modulator. The oscillation signal may be a signal of constant hi-frequency, or a signal that has a frequency larger or equal to that of the input signal by an integer factor.

Abstract: The present invention provides a nonlinear estimating apparatus and method, and a receiver. The nonlinear estimating apparatus includes: an information sequence acquiring unit, configured to acquire a symbol information sequence of the pulse signal inputted by a transmitting side; a perturbation quantity generating unit, configured to calculate the weighted sum of the interaction items of the pulses on one or more moments relative to the current moment, so as to obtain an additive perturbation quantity and a multiplicative perturbation quantity produced on a transmission link with a certain length; and a signal estimating unit, configured to estimating the signal received at a receiving side according to the symbol information sequence, the additive perturbation quantity and the multiplicative perturbation quantity. With the embodiments of the present invention, the accuracy of estimation of nonlinear signals may be further improved.

Abstract: Methods and systems for processing signals in a receiver are disclosed herein and may include updating a plurality of filter taps utilizing at least one channel response vector and at least one correlation vector, for a plurality of received clusters, based on initialized values related to the at least one channel response vector and the at least one correlation vector. At least a portion of the received signal clusters may be filtered utilizing at least a portion of the updated plurality of filter taps. The update may be repeated whenever a specified signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the received signal clusters is reached. The initialized values may be updated during a plurality of iterations, and the update may be repeated whenever a specified number of the plurality of iterations is reached.

Abstract: A wireless device that operates in accordance with the IEEE 802.11 standard receives the preamble of a packet with the highest number of receive chains enabled, thereby obtaining the highest gain, detection sensitivity and range. The wireless device determines a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in response to two different short training fields (STFs) in the preamble. The wireless device also determines a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and a number of spatial streams (Nss) used to transmit the received packet in response to a signal field of the preamble. The wireless device uses these determined parameters to identify a minimum number of the receive chains required to reliably receive the packet. The wireless device uses only the identified minimum number of receive chains to perform channel estimation and receive the data portion of the packet.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed to compensate for interference and/or distortion impressed onto a transmitted communication signal in the presence of one or more time-varying noise and/or interference conditions. A communications receiver includes a noise analyzer to characterize the composition of the interference and/or the distortion and produce a selection signal indicating the composition of the interference and/or the distortion. The communications receiver selects at least one set of equalization coefficients and/or updates at least one parameter of a least-squares algorithm or the suitable equivalent algorithm to compensate for the interference and/or the distortion impressed onto a transmitted communication signal in the presence of a particular time-varying noise and/or interference condition.

Abstract: Techniques for performing spectral shaping to achieve a desired peak-to-average ratio (PAR) are described. Spectral shaping may be selectively performed for a single-carrier frequency division multiplexing (SC-FDM) signal based on one or more criteria, e.g., in transmit power limited conditions and/or if a modulation scheme with lower PAR is unavailable. At least one parameter of a window function or spectral shaping filter may also be adjusted based on at least one characteristic of the SC-FDM signal. For example, the roll-off of the spectral shaping filter may be adjusted based on the modulation scheme and/or the number of subcarriers used for the SC-FDM signal. A transmitter may perform spectral shaping on modulation symbols, if enabled, to obtain spectrally shaped symbols. Spectral shaping may be performed in the frequency domain either within an allocated bandwidth or with bandwidth expansion. The SC-FDM signal may be generated based on the spectrally shaped symbols.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes applying, by a transimpedance amplifier at a receiving end of a communication link, equalization to a signal carried by the communication link at the receiving end of the communication link.

Abstract: A method of channel estimation includes receiving a signal after transmission over a media having a plurality of sub-carriers in a frequency band. The signal is preprocessed including performing a fast Fourier transform (FFT) to generate a plurality of frequency-domain samples. Channel estimating is applied to the plurality of frequency-domain samples using (i) least squares (LS) estimation, wherein the LS estimation generates intermediate LS channel estimates for each of the sub-carriers, and (ii) frequency-domain filtering and scaling the intermediate LS channel estimates. The frequency-domain filtering uses a common frequency-domain filter consisting of a single filter coefficient vector having a plurality of frequency-domain filter coefficients to generate refined channel estimates for each of the plurality of sub-carriers.

Abstract: A digital radio receiver comprises: a first section arranged to receive an analogue radio signal and to generate therefrom digital intermediate frequency I and Q channel samples, a second section arranged to convert said I and Q channel samples to a lower, baseband frequency, said second section comprising: a first coordinate rotation digital computer module arranged to perform a complex rotation of the I channel samples; a second coordinate rotation digital computer module arranged to perform a complex rotation of the Q channel samples; a phase accumulator arranged to provide an output signal representing a complex rotation to be applied to each of the I and Q channel samples, wherein the second section is arranged such that the phase accumulator output signal is modified by a phase offset signal prior to being supplied to one of the first and second coordinate rotation digital computers.

Abstract: A method and corresponding system for generating an estimate of at least one of a signal power, a noise power and a signal to interference ratio for signal samples received via first and second wireless channels, the signal samples corresponding to pilot symbols transmitted in respective different structures via the first and second wireless channels. The method comprises: calculating first and second variables, each variable being a sequence of values computed from the received signal samples and the pilot symbols for each respective first and second wireless channel; generating first and second channel estimates from the first and second variables; combining the first and second channel estimates to generate a combined channel estimate; and generating at least one of the signal power, noise power and SIR using the combined channel estimate.

Abstract: A video transmission system includes a transceiver module that transmits a video signal to a remote device over at least one communications channel wherein the video signal is transmitted as at least one separate video layer stream chosen from, an independent video layer stream and at least one dependent video layer streams that require the independent video layer for decoding. A control module determines at least one channel characteristic of the at least one channel and chooses the at least one separate video layer stream based on the at least one channel characteristic of the at least one channel.

Abstract: Provided are a decoding apparatus and method for a system supporting an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) scheme, the apparatus and method compensating received signals according to a wireless channel estimation result and thereby simply performing decoding by a coherent method. The decoding method includes the steps of: receiving a Quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulated signal; compensating the received signals by applying a result of channel estimation based on pilot signals to the received signals; performing subcarrier demodulation to generate correlation metrics on the basis of the compensated received signals; and performing decoding using a decoding metric derived from the correlation metrics. The decoding apparatus and method compensate a received wireless signal according to a channel estimation result of a wireless channel through which a signal is transmitted, thereby performing decoding by a coherent method having a simple structure.

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods are directed to maintaining optimal carrier tracking performance in view of operating conditions that prevail. Such configurations employ a phase lock loop that configured to generate an estimated phase error value, a variance module configured to calculate a phase noise variance based on the estimated phase error value, and a loop control bandwidth module that calculates a loop bandwidth value based on a detected lower phase noise variance, generates modified loop filter values in accordance with the calculated loop bandwidth value, and updates the phase lock loop with the modified loop filter values. During subsequent iterations, the modified loop filter values are incrementally adjusted along a particular direction until the phase noise variance increases at which point the modified loop filter values are incrementally adjusted in an opposite direction to converge on an optimal loop bandwidth value.

Abstract: A transmitter includes first generator to generate pilot source signal by modulating pilot sequence, second generator to generate data source signal with time length longer than that of pilot source signal by modulating data sequence, first cyclic shifter to perform cyclic shift of first shift amount to pilot source signal to generate first pilot signal, second cyclic shifter to performs cyclic shift of second shift amount to data source signal to generate first data signal, third cyclic shifter to perform cyclic shift of third shift amount to pilot source signal to generate second pilot signal, fourth cyclic shifter to perform cyclic shift of fourth shift amount to data source signal to generate second data signal, first transmit antenna to transmit first pilot signal and first data signal, and second transmit antenna to transmit second pilot signal and second data signal.

Abstract: A signal detector/decoder is implemented in multiple stages. The beginning stage is configured to input channel data bits and to output hard data bits based on the channel bits and a maximum likelihood (ML) path. The next stage includes a postcoder coupled to receive channel domain information from the first stage and to convert the channel domain information to user domain information. The final stage includes a reliability unit coupled to receive the user domain information from the postcoder and to output user domain soft information for the hard data bits based on the ML path estimation and the user domain information.

Abstract: A receiver is to enter a reduced power state and identify a differential signal transmitted, by a transmitter, over a differential, point-to-point serial data link. The signal is interpreted as a wake signal and can be used to transition at least a portion of the receiver from the reduced power state to a normal power state.

Abstract: A radio-receiver circuit. The radio receiver circuit comprises an analog-to-digital conversion unit. The analog-to-digital conversion unit comprises an analog-to-digital converter, ADC, and a filter operatively connected to an input terminal of the ADC in a receive path of the radio-receiver circuit. The radio-receiver circuit further comprises a control unit adapted to receive control data and determine, based on the control data, a frequency band in which data is to be transmitted to the radio-receiver circuit during a subsequent time interval. Furthermore, the control unit is adapted to adapt at least one frequency characteristic of the analog-to-digital conversion unit to the determined frequency band for receiving said data transmitted in said subsequent time interval.

Abstract: A reception device includes two antennas 1-1, 1-2 that are in an inverse correlation, a switching unit 4 which switches the signal that is to be processed among signals received by the two antennas 1-1, 1-2, and an adaptive equalizer 6 which uses equalization coefficients to perform equalizing processing on the signal considered by the switching unit 4 to be the signal to be processed, and an equalization coefficient altering unit 7 which alters the equalization coefficients used by the adaptive equalizer 6 synchronously with the timing of switching performed by the switching unit 4. In the reception device can reduce the required time for reconvergence of equalization coefficients stemming from reception system switching in selection diversity using an inverse correlation antenna.

Abstract: A digital signal processing (DSP) apparatus can be used to process a serial stream of digital signal samples of a plurality of “n” number of different signals. The DSP apparatus can include a DSP module configured to perform a DSP algorithm on digital signal samples of the signals. The DSP apparatus can have a delay memory with an “n” number of memory cells that each corresponding to one of the signals. The delay memory can also have a digital signal sample input connected to said initial input of said DSP module, a signal-number-in input, a signal-number-out input, and a digital signal sample output connected to said delay input of said DSP module. The delay memory can be configured to store a digital signal sample at the digital signal sample input in a memory cells identified by a signal identifier at said signal-number-in input.

Abstract: A clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit includes an inductor-capacitor voltage controlled oscillator (LCVCO) configured to generate a clock signal with a clock frequency. The CDR circuit further includes a delay locked loop (DLL) configured to receive the clock signal from the LCVCO and generate multiple clock phases and a first charge pump configured to control the LCVCO. The CDR circuit further includes a phase detector configured to receive a data input and the multiple clock phases from the DLL, and to align a data edge of the data input and the multiple clock phases.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a demodulation reference signal (DM RS) are disclosed. A method for controlling a base station (BS) to transmit a demodulation reference signal (Demodulation RS or DM RS) in a wireless communication system includes transmitting, by the base station (BS), a DM RS for a relay node (RN) to the relay node (RN) through a specific backhaul subframe to which an extended cyclic prefix (CP) is applied. The DM RS is transmitted over two resource elements (REs) of individual subcarriers having subcarrier frequency indexes 2, 5, 8 and 11 in a frequency axis within a second slot of the specific backhaul subframe.

Abstract: A noise and interference tolerant bit communication system, which requires no conventional modulation/demodulation, with its' associated digital-hardware-implemented mechanisms for bit transmission, bit reception, and channel balancing; are presented, where electrical, photonic, or EM pulses (signals); representing binary information bits; are carried from a transmitter point over an (Nx2)-channel transmission medium, to a receiver point. The binary value of a transmitted pulse is identified at the receiver by means of the actual channel the pulse is travelling through. For example, if at a given time, any pulse transmitted and received through the first channel represents logic one, while any pulse transmitted and received through the second channel represents logic zero; thus reducing pulse's binary state representation per channel from two to one. The proposed system is capable of error-free communication at any signal-to-noise plus interference ratio value greater than zero.

Abstract: A method for transmitting a data signal by a transmission unit of a wireless multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) communication system. The communication system includes the transmission unit and a reception unit, the transmission unit having a plurality of transmission antennas and the reception unit having a plurality of reception antennas. The method includes performing a first transmission of a data signal, the first transmission including transmitting the data signal by each one of the plurality of transmission antennas, and performing a second transmission of the data signal at a time later than the first transmission, the second transmission including transmitting at least one spectrally modified signal variant of the data signal by at least one antenna of the plurality of transmission antennas.

Abstract: A first node including a physical layer device, a first transceiver and a second transceiver. The first transceiver includes a first analog front end connected to a first transmission line. The first analog front end is configured to transfer first data between the physical layer device and a second node via the first transmission line. The second transceiver includes a second analog front end connected to a second transmission line. The second analog front end is configured to transfer second data between the physical layer device and a third node via the second transmission line. A first type of the second transmission line is different than a second type of the first transmission line. The first node is configured to perform as a repeater using data repeating functions at a link layer control level.

Abstract: A repeater is configured to selectively generate and transmit control message packets between wireless stations on both a transmit side and a receive side of the repeater. The repeater manages and manipulates an end to end protocol of the control message packets in a manner that does not change media access control (MAC) addresses of the end to end protocol so as to achieve a network objective, such as preventing other transmitters from transmitting while the repeater repeats a signal from its receive side to its transmit side. The control message management is applicable to analog signal repeaters as well as digital repeaters, such as symbol to symbol or packet to packet repeaters, in which physical layer control message management is performed.

Abstract: A digital broadcasting transmission/reception system having improved receiving performance and signal processing method thereof. A digital broadcasting transmitter according to the present invention includes a data pre-processor which processed robust data and generates robust data packet of predetermined format, a TS stream generator which combines robust data packet with a normal data packet to generate a TS stream of a predetermined format, a randomizer which randomizes the TS stream output from the TS stream generator, a convolution encoder which performs convolution encoding with respect to the robust data of the data output from the randomizer, and a RS encoder which performs RS encoding with respect to the data output from the convolution g encoder. Accordingly, digital broadcasting receiving performance can be improved in a poor multipath channel, while maintaining compatibility with existing transmission/reception system.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a signal receiving apparatus including: a data-loss detection section configured to detect a data loss from a received signal; and a timing adjustment section configured to adjust a processing timing by the quantity of the data loss on the basis of the detection result of the data loss.

Abstract: A method includes computing a minimum sensitivity threshold value for a particular wireless device, configuring the particular wireless device to receive wireless signals with a signal strength higher than the minimum sensitivity threshold value, distributing the minimum sensitivity threshold value to other wireless devices, and configuring the other wireless devices based on the minimum sensitivity threshold value for the particular wireless device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a precoded signal, the method comprising: determining a precoding matrix on the basis of the first matrix, which is determined from a first codebook including precoding matrices indicated by a first precoding matrix index (PMI), and the second matrix, which is determined from a second codebook including precoding matrices indicated by a second PMI; and transmitting the precoded signal using the determined precoding matrix to the receiver, wherein each precoding matrix contained in the first codebook is comprised of a block diagonal matrix, and individual blocks of the block diagonal matrix are configured independently of each other, and each precoding matrix contained in the second codebook is comprised of an upper element and a lower element, where the lower element includes a phase rotation value.

Abstract: Disclosed are a signal compression apparatus and method for dynamic compressive sensing, including: a signal input unit configured to simultaneously output an input signal, and generate and output a linear measurement reference signal based on the input signal; a linear transform unit configured to receive the linear measurement reference signal and variably generate a linear measurement matrix value according to the linear measurement reference signal; a signal compressor configured to output a compressed signal for the input signal based on the generated linear measurement matrix value; and a signal processor configured to reconstruct the compressed signal and perform spectrum sensing of the input signal.