Communication system with reduced power variation and method therefor
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorRorie O'Neill
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Abstract
Communication systems employing subchannel communication such as OFDM or multicode CDMA have a disadvantage of power variation of the transmitted signal. The present invention provides reduced power variation without compromising performance or bandwidth. Information symbols to be transmitted on the individual subchannel are fed to encoders which map the information symbols into channel symbols by increasing their order. The encoding in response to a forward error correction scheme and includes selection between redundant symbol values to reduce power variation. Preferably the encoder includes a trellis coder jointly encoding the symbols and a compensation data set to reduce power variation.
Claims13
A communication system with reduced power variation wherein data is transmitted over a plurality of subchannels including
- at least one means of generating information symbols;
- at least one encoder for encoding information symbols into higher order channel symbols at substantially the same symbol rate, the encoding of an individual information symbol as a channel symbol including a forward error correction scheme for the channel symbol and including selection of the channel symbol from a higher order channel symbol constellation comprising redundant channel symbol values by evaluating the power variation for all possible redundant channel symbol values for a combined signal of the plurality of subchannels and choosing the channel symbol value producing the lowest power variation for the combined signal, and
- a subchannel transmitter for transmission of channel symbols on individual subchannels in the combined signal, characterized in that one channel symbol is generated for each information symbol;
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- wherein the at least one encoder is arranged to perform the apply the forward error correction scheme independently on the individual subchannels.
A method of reducing power variation in a communication system wherein data is transmitted over a plurality of subchannels, the method comprising the steps of:
- generating information symbols;
- encoding said information symbols into higher order channel symbols at substantially the same symbol rate, the encoding of an individual information symbol as a channel symbol including a forward error correction scheme for the channel symbol and including selection of the channel symbol from a higher order channel symbol constellation comprising redundant channel symbol values by evaluating the power variation for all possible redundant channel symbol values for a combined signal of the plurality of subchannels and choosing the channel symbol value producing the lowest power variation for the combined signal;
- transmitting the channel symbols on individual subchannels in the combined signal;
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- receiving the higher order channel symbols and regenerating the information symbols, characterized in that one channel symbol is generated for each information symbol, and
- wherein the forward error correction scheme is applied independently on the individual subchannels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.