US 7,609,614 B2 · Uplink modulation and receiver structures for asymmetric OFDMA systems

A demodulator apparatus for use in a wireless multiple-access communication system where a headend communicates with a plurality of wireless subscriber stations, and the plurality of wireless subscriber stations use frequency division multiplexing to share an uplink frequency bandwidth, the demodulator apparatus comprising:

a channelizing filter bank that separates a collection of frequency division multiplexed uplink signals into a plurality of noncoherently demodulated channel signals including a particular noncoherently demodulated channel signal, wherein the noncoherently demodulated channel signals are noncoherently demodulated complex-valued channel signals and the particular noncoherently demodulated channel signal is a particular noncoherently demodulated complex-valued channel signal;
a noncoherent detector configured to detect information from the particular noncoherently demodulated channel signal, the noncoherent detector including an I/Q demodulator that noncoherently extracts first and second real-valued baseband signals respectively from an in-phase carrier signal and a quadrature-phase carrier signal, and the particular noncoherently demodulated complex-valued channel signal comprises the first and second real-valued baseband signals;
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a trellis decoder responsive to the particular noncoherently demodulated complex-valued channel signal, wherein the trellis decoder includes:
a set of composite states including a first composite state that represents information related to first and second simple states, wherein the first simple state corresponds to a first state of a first real-valued trellis path of a first real-valued message signal and the second simple state corresponds to a first state of a second real-valued trellis path of a second real-valued message signal;
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a branch metric calculator that calculates a respective branch metric for each of a plurality of composite state transitions, wherein each composite state transition of the plurality of composite state transitions respectively leads from the first composite state to a respective second composite state, and each respective second composite state represents information related to third and fourth simple states, wherein the third simple state corresponds to a next state after the first state of the first real-valued trellis path and the fourth simple state corresponds to a next state after the first state of the second real-valued trellis path;
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wherein the particular noncoherently demodulated complex-valued channel signal corresponds to a quadrature-multiplexed continuous phase modulation (QM-CPM) signal, and the first and second real-valued message signals are related to respective first and second continuous-phase baseband signals though a complex-to-real mapping function.

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A demodulator apparatus for use in a wireless multiple-access communication system where a headend communicates with a plurality of wireless subscriber stations, and the plurality of wireless subscriber stations use frequency division multiplexing to share an uplink frequency bandwidth, the demodulator apparatus, comprising:

a channelizing filter bank that separates a collection of frequency division multiplexed uplink signals into a plurality of noncoherently demodulated channel signals including a particular noncoherently demodulated channel signal, wherein the noncoherently demodulated channel signals are noncoherently demodulated complex-valued channel signals and the particular noncoherently demodulated channel signal is a particular noncoherently demodulated complex-valued channel signal;
a noncoherent detector configured to detect information from the particular noncoherently demodulated complex-valued channel signal, wherein the noncoherent detector includes:
an I/Q demodulator that noncoherently extracts from an in-phase carrier signal and a quadrature-phase carrier signal first and second real-valued baseband signals;
an envelope estimator that computes from the first and second real-valued baseband signals one or more envelope measurements per symbol interval;
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a differential phase detector that computes from the first and second real-valued baseband signals one or more differential phase measurements per symbol interval;
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a trellis decoder responsive to the particular noncoherently demodulated complex-valued channel signal, wherein the trellis decoder includes:
a set of composite states including a first composite state that represents information related to first and second simple states, wherein the first simple state corresponds to a first state of a first real-valued trellis path of a first real-valued message signal and the second simple state corresponds to a first state of a second real-valued trellis path of a second real-valued message signal;
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a branch metric calculator that calculates a respective branch metric for each of a plurality of composite state transitions, wherein each composite state transition of the plurality of composite state transitions respectively leads from the first composite state to a respective second composite state, and each respective second composite state represents information related to third and fourth simple states, wherein the third simple state corresponds to a next state after the first state of the first real-valued trellis path and the fourth simple state corresponds to a next state after the first state of the second real-valued trellis path;
wherein the branch metric calculator calculates the respective branch metric for each of a plurality of composite state transitions using the one or more envelope measurements per symbol interval and the one or more differential phase measurements per symbol interval, and the values of the branch metrics are substantially dependent on both the one or more envelope measurements and the one or more differential phase measurements.

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An apparatus for use in a wireless multiple-access communication system where a headend communicates with a plurality of wireless subscriber stations, and the plurality of wireless subscriber stations use frequency division multiplexing to share an uplink frequency bandwidth, the demodulator apparatus comprising:

a channelizing filter bank that separates a collection of frequency division multiplexed uplink signals into a plurality of noncoherently demodulated complex-valued channel signals including a particular noncoherently demodulated complex-valued channel signal that corresponds to a quadrature-multiplexed continuous phase modulation (QM-CPM) signal, wherein the QM-CPM signal has encoded therein first and second real-valued message signals that are related to respective first and second continuous-phase baseband signals through a complex-to-real mapping function;
a trellis decoder responsive to the particular noncoherently demodulated complex-valued channel signal, wherein the trellis decoder includes:
a set of composite states including a first composite state that represents information related to first and second simple states, wherein the first simple state corresponds to a first state of a first real-valued trellis path of a first real-valued message signal and the second simple state corresponds to a first state of a second real-valued trellis path of a second real-valued message signal;
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a branch metric calculator that calculates a respective branch metric for each of a plurality of composite state transitions, wherein each composite state transition of the plurality of composite state transitions respectively leads from the first composite state to a respective second composite state, and each respective second composite state represents information related to third and fourth simple states, wherein the third simple state corresponds to a next state after the first state of the first real-valued trellis path and the fourth simple state corresponds to a next state after the first state of the second real-valued trellis path.

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A demodulator apparatus for use in noncoherently detecting a sequence of information symbols encoded into a modulated signal, wherein each information symbol in the sequence of information symbols has a duration of one symbol interval, wherein the modulated signal is used to carry information in a communication system, the demodulator apparatus comprising:

an I/O demodulator that noncoherently extracts from the modulated signal a first real-valued baseband signal and a second real-valued baseband signal;
an envelope estimator that computes one or more envelope measurements per symbol interval based on the first and second real-valued baseband signals;
a differential phase detector that computes one or more differential phase measurements per symbol interval based on the first and second real-valued baseband signals;
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a trellis decoder which includes a branch metric calculator that uses the one or more envelope measurements and the one or more differential phase measurements to calculate a set of branch metrics for each of a plurality of composite state transitions, wherein each such composite state transition respectively leads from a respective first composite state to a respective second composite state, and the values of the branch metrics are substantially dependent on both the one or more envelope measurements and the one or more differential phase measurements;
wherein the modulated signal does not include pilot symbols that carry carrier phase reference information embedded therein, and the demodulator apparatus does not perform carrier phase recovery to phase-align the first and second real-valued baseband signals with respect to any carrier phase reference.

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