423 results about "Guard band" patented technology

A magnetic disk including a substrate, a recording track section which is made of a magnetic member for recording and reproducing information magnetically and is provided on the substrate, and a guard band member which is provided between the recording track sections adjacent to each other so that they are substantially continued in a track direction and is harder than the magnetic member and is made of a non-magnetic material. Moreover, the magnetic member is not provided or magnetic members with a different thickness from the magnetic member forming the recording track section is provided on a lower area of the guard band member.

A system and method for reducing interference between communications systems sharing at a portion of at least some allocated frequency bands is described. The system comprises a first communication system broadcasting on a first set of broadcast bands having guard bands therebetween, and a second communications system broadcasting on a second set of broadcast bands substantially spanning the guard bands of the first communications system.

Disclosed is a communication method in a multi-carrier system, including: allocating radio resources for transmitting signals to a middle guard band; and transmitting the signals through the radio resources; wherein the middle guard band is a frequency band positioned between used bands of a plurality of carriers, respectively, within an aggregated carrier formed by aggregating the plurality of carriers and a unit allocating the radio resources of the middle guard band is different from a unit allocating the radio resources of the used bands. A multi-carrier system uses the guard bands between the carriers to improve channel estimation performance or increase efficiency of radio resources.

In an OFDM communication system that performs OFDM data communication by dividing a band region into a plurality of bands and assigning each band to a mobile station, a base station monitors transmission characteristics of the bands and state of use of adjacent bands, then sets whether to use or not use guard band regions between bands for data transmission based upon the transmission characteristics, and the state of use of the adjacent bands.

Methods and apparatus are provided for indicating safe or potentially hazardous operating conditions of an aircraft in a required navigational performance (RNP) environment. The apparatus comprises a course deviation display field with first and second markers defining outer boundaries of the RNP width and a central marker indicating the desired course within the RNP width, an aircraft estimated position uncertainty (EPU) marker in the display field whose size corresponds to the EPU relative to the RNP and a current aircraft position marker coupled to the EPU marker and moving therewith as the aircraft position changes with respect to the RNP width. The display desirably changes color and/or flashes to alert a pilot to a potentially hazardous condition when an outer boundary of the EPU marker approaches to within a predetermined guard-band distance of or overlaps either of the first or second markers. An audible warning can be included.

Embodiments are provided for guard band utilization for synchronous and asynchronous communications in wireless networks. A user equipment (UE) or a network component transmits symbols on data bands assigned for primary communications. The data bands are separated by a guard band having smaller bandwidth than the data bands. The UE or network component further modulates symbols for secondary communications with a spectrally contained wave form, which has a smaller bandwidth than the guard band. The spectrally contained wave form is achieved with orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation or with joint OFDM and Offset Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (OQAM) modulation. The modulated symbols for the secondary communications are transmitted within the guard band.

Different numerologies may be used to communicate orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based signals over different frequency sub-bands of a given carrier. This may allow the OFDM-based signals to efficiently support diverse traffic types. In some embodiments, the numerology of OFDM-based signal depends on a bandwidth of the frequency sub-band over which the OFDM-based signals are transmitted. In some embodiments, the OFDM-based signals are filtered OFDM (f-OFDM) signals, and the pulse shaping digital filter used to generate the f-OFDM signals allows the receiver to mitigate interference between adjacent f-OFDM signals upon reception, thereby allowing f-OFDM signals to be communicated over consecutive carriers without relying on a guard band.

A clip testing unit within a graphics accelerator for comparing a value of a given homogeneous coordinate of a vertex position of a polygon relative to a plurality of clipping planes. The plurality of clipping planes includes both regular and guard band clipping planes. The clip testing unit includes registers for receiving and storing a W value corresponding to the vertex position, as well as a coordinate input register for receiving and storing the given homogeneous coordinate. The W value is conveyed to a guard band W generation unit, which generates a guard band W value in response thereto. The clip testing unit also includes a clip compare unit coupled to receive the W value, the guard band W value and the value of the given coordinate. The clip compare unit receives and compares the W value and the value of the given coordinate, generating one or more first clip signals in response thereto. The one or more first clip signals indicate whether the value of the given coordinate is outside of a regular clipping space defined by the regular clipping planes. Furthermore, the clip compare unit receives and compares the guard band W value and the value of the given coordinate, generating one or more second clip signals in response thereto. The one or more second clip signals indicate whether the value of the given coordinate is outside of a guard band clipping space defined by the guard band clipping planes. Because the first and second clip comparisons are performed substantially concurrently by the clip compare unit, the clip testing performance of the graphics accelerator is advantageously increased.

Disclosed is a configuration of a guard band for a radio communication system formed of consecutive sub-bands. Particularly disclosed are designs of a middle guard band for preventing interference between adjacent sub-bands and regulating a difference in frequency between signals transmitted in each sub-band in a radio communication system such as a multi-carrier OFDM system and a multi-carrier CDMA system that forms a wideband through carrier aggregation. Related transmission/reception method and apparatus are further disclosed.

A wireless terminal capable of communicating with a wireless communication system comprised of a plurality of wireless terminals and a plurality of base stations. The wireless terminal selects a sequence from a group of certain sequences for random access. At least one sub-carriers on an uplink channel including at least one data channel is allocated for at least one random access channel. Each data channel includes a continuous set of data sub-carriers. The wireless terminal then filters the at least one random access channel by applying a Raised Cosine filter, maps the selected sequence to the at least one random access channel to generate a random access channel signal, and transmits the random access channel signal to a base station.

A random intrinsic chip ID generation employs a retention fail signature. A 1^st and 2^nd ID are generated using testing settings with a 1^st setting more restrictive than the 2^nd, creating more fails in the 1^st ID bit string that includes 2^nd ID bit string. A retention pause time controls the number of retention fails, adjusted by a BIST engine, wherein the fail numbers satisfy a predetermined fail target. Verification confirms whether the 1^st ID includes the 2^nd ID bit string, the ID being the one used for authentication. Authentication is enabled by a 3^rd ID with intermediate condition such that 1^st ID includes 3^rd ID bit string and 3^rd ID includes 2^nd ID bit string. The intermediate condition includes a guard-band to eliminate bit instability problem near the 1st and 2^nd ID boundary. The intermediate condition is changed at each ID read operation, resulting in a more secure identification.

A disclosed radio communication apparatus includes an intermediate band detecting unit detecting an intermediate band which is a band between a first frequency band and a second frequency band which are allocated to a same mobile communication system or different mobile communication systems, a use status detecting unit detecting an uplink/downlink multiplexing method used in each of the first frequency band and the second frequency band, and a determination unit determining, based on the intermediate band and the uplink/downlink multiplexing method, the uplink/downlink multiplexing method usable in the intermediate band and a guard band in which use of frequencies are prevented, the guard band being included in the intermediate band.

The present invention relates to a method for allocating wireless resources in a wireless access system that supports an operation in an unlicensed band, as well as to an apparatus for the method. More particularly, a method for allocating wireless resources in a wireless access system that supports a television white space (TV WS) band comprises the steps of: allocating, to a terminal and from among TV WS bands, available frequency bands which are not used by a licensed device; if a receiving band of another device exists in a neighboring band of the available frequency bands, setting up a guard band in a portion of the band adjacent to the neighboring band from among the available frequency bands; allocating wireless resources to a terminal in a frequency band from among the available frequency bands, excluding the guard band; and receiving uplink data from the terminal through the wireless resources, wherein the guard band is determined using the allocation location of the wireless resources, the amount of wireless resources, and the transmission power of the terminal.

A hard disk drive that includes a disk with data written onto a plurality of tracks, a spindle motor that rotates the disk, and a head that is coupled to the disk. The disk drive also includes a circuit that writes data onto a first writable shingle band of tracks if the first writable shingle band is adjacent to a guard band of tracks. The first writable shingle band includes a number of tracks that is a function of a head width. The guard band of tracks is capable of becoming a writable shingle band. Changing the designation of a shingle band between guard and writable creates floating guard bands. The creation of floating guard bands allows for the writing of a single band without having to move and restore adjacent tracks until reaching a fixed guard band as required in the prior art.

A method of controlling a power over Ethernet system, the method comprising: sequentially powering a plurality of powered devices over communication cabling; determining a first total power consumption responsive to the powering of the plurality of powered devices; in the event that the determined first total power consumption exceeds a predetermined maximum power level, disabling power from at least one of the powered plurality of powered devices thereby reducing power consumption to less than the predetermined maximum power level; responsive to the disabling power, defining a connection power limit lower than the maximum power level by a guard band; monitoring a second total power consumption subsequent to the disabling power; and enabling power to a powered device only in the event the monitored second total power consumption is less than the connection power limit.

A method of tagging signals for leakage detection and measurement in cable television networks which uses additional signals carrying the tagging information and transmitted in these networks. A narrowband tagging signal or signals are placed in the unused frequency spectrum parts of any used cable television channel, in particular in the guard bands (GB) of analog or digital channels, carrying, for example, television, radio or data services.

The invention relates to a method for transmitting resource location field in resource assignment signaling and a device thereof. The method comprises the following steps: a base station determines the smallest size of the resource location field in the resource assignment signaling according to system bandwidth and width of guard band; the base station adds the information of the resource location to the resource assignment signaling according to the determined smallest size; the base station sends the resource assignment signaling in a downlink channel; the terminal gets the starting location and/or end location of authorization resource in an uplink channel and/or the downlink channel according to the resource assignment signaling. The device consists of a size determining module, an adding module for information of resource location and a signaling sending and receiving module. The method and the device of the invention can determine the size of the resource location field in the resource assignment signaling according to the situation of the system bandwidth so as to effectively improve the use efficiency of L1/L2 control channel.

A method and an apparatus are provided for estimating a carrier-to-interference and noise ratio (CINR) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication system. The apparatus and method include a receiver for receiving a signal carried by a transmission sub-carrier including a guard band allocated to a region. Further, an estimator is provided for removing a signal component dispersed by the guard band included in a noise component of the received signal, and for estimating a CINR by calculating signal component power and interference and noise component power from the received signal from which the dispersed signal component is removed.