Localized Spreading for Wireless Signaling Interference Mitigation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Wireless communication systems face challenges in maintaining reliable signaling detection performance due to interference variations, particularly intra-tile interference, which degrades performance and requires techniques to mitigate these variations.

Innovation Solution

The method involves localized spreading of signaling symbols using a spreading matrix, where multiple signaling symbols are spread and mapped to time-frequency blocks, and receivers perform complementary despreading to recover the symbols, thereby averaging interference variations and improving detection performance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If signaling is transmitted using conventional methods without localized spreading, then the transmission structure is simple, but detection performance degrades in the presence of interference variations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection performanceVSAvoidtransmission structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the signaling transmission into multiple time-frequency blocks, with each block containing spread signaling symbols. The spreading matrix operation segments the original signaling into multiple output symbols that are distributed across different resource elements within each block, allowing interference averaging while maintaining a structured transmission format

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms the signaling symbols through a spreading matrix operation, changing the parameter representation of the signaling from concentrated to distributed form. This parameter transformation enables the system to achieve robustness against interference variations by spreading the signaling energy across multiple resource elements while maintaining the ability to recover the original signaling through complementary despreading

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If signaling is transmitted with localized spreading to mitigate interference, then detection performance improves, but receiver processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection performanceVSAvoidreceiver processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies spreading at the transmitter before transmission, which preliminarily structures the signaling in a way that enables simple block-level processing at the receiver. The spreading matrix is designed such that the complementary despreading operation can be performed efficiently on each time-frequency block independently, avoiding the need for complex global processing while still achieving interference mitigation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If signaling symbols are spread across multiple time frequency blocks, then interference variations are averaged, but the signaling occupies more resources

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinterference resistanceVSAvoidresource occupation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies localized spreading within each time-frequency block rather than spreading across the entire bandwidth. This partial spreading approach provides sufficient interference averaging within each block to improve detection performance, while avoiding the excessive resource occupation that would result from spreading across all available resources. The spreading is confined to the necessary minimum within each block

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentEP2067334B1Signaling transmission with localized spreading for wireless communication
Publication Date: 2019.04.03 QUALCOMM INC
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AI summary

Techniques for transmitting signaling with localized spreading are described. In one design, a transmitter (e.g., a base station) spreads multiple signaling symbols to obtain multiple sets of output symbols and further maps the multiple sets of output symbols to multiple time frequency blocks. The spreading may be localized to each time frequency block. Prior to the spreading, the transmitter may scale the multiple signaling symbols with multiple gains determined based on the transmit power for these signaling symbols. The transmitter may scramble the scaled signaling symbols to obtain scrambled symbols and may spread the scrambled symbols to obtain the multiple sets of output symbols. The transmitter may map each set of output symbols to a respective time frequency block.