Punctured Data Message Transmission for Wireless Reliability

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Solution Overview

Problem

In wireless communications networks, noise degrades receiver performance, leading to failed decoding of data messages, and existing solutions require acknowledgment from receivers to retransmit data, increasing the number of transmissions.

Innovation Solution

A transmission method that sends punctured data messages with alternating code rates within a flooding routine, allowing receivers to reassemble encoded data without acknowledging decoding success, reducing the need for retransmissions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If acknowledgment-based retransmission is used, then decoding reliability is improved, but the number of transmissions increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedecoding reliabilityVSAvoidnumber of transmissions
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The encoded data message is divided into multiple punctured data messages with different code rates, each transmitted in separate time slots. This segmentation allows the receiver to combine information from multiple transmissions without requiring explicit acknowledgments, thereby reducing the number of retransmissions while maintaining decoding reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The transmitter pre-determines multiple puncturing patterns with different code rates before transmission. By preparing multiple versions of the encoded message in advance, the system can switch between different code rates based on channel conditions without waiting for receiver feedback, thus avoiding the need for acknowledgment-based retransmission.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If multiple punctured data messages with different code rates are transmitted, then decoding capability in noisy environments is improved, but the complexity of the transmission system increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedecoding capabilityVSAvoidtransmission system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system varies the code rate parameter by applying different puncturing patterns to the encoded data message. By changing the code rate parameter across multiple transmissions, the system adapts to noisy channel conditions without requiring complex error correction mechanisms or additional processing at the receiver end.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The transmitter uses periodic puncturing patterns with different code rates in alternating time slots. This periodic variation in code rate provides diversity in the transmitted signals, enabling the receiver to combine information effectively while keeping the transmission system relatively simple.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

3Productivity

If data messages are transmitted without acknowledgment, then the number of transmissions is reduced, but decoding reliability may deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenumber of transmissionsVSAvoiddecoding reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system transmits multiple copies of the encoded data message with different puncturing patterns and code rates. By sending multiple copies rather than relying for single transmission with acknowledgment, the receiver can combine information from these copies to achieve reliable decoding without explicit feedback from the transmitter.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The receiver merges or combines information from multiple punctured data messages with different code rates to reconstruct the original encoded message. This combining process enables reliable decoding without requiring acknowledgment-based retransmission, as the receiver aggregates information from all transmissions regardless of their individual success.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentEP4046302B1Transmission device and method for transmitting punctured data messages having common input bits and reception device and method for reassembling an encoded data message based on punctured data messages
Publication Date: 2023.12.13 ELBIT SYST C4I & CYBER LTD
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AI summary

A transmission device and method for repeatedly transmitting punctured data messages is disclosed. The transmission device is configured to puncture an encoded data message over a plurality of consecutive time slots to provide punctured data messages. The punctured data messages include a first punctured data message and a second punctured data message that are alternately transmitted during the consecutive time slots, the first punctured data message arising from puncturing the encoded data message with a first puncture indices series and the second punctured data message arising from the puncturing of the encoded data message with a second puncture indices series that is complementary to the first puncture indices series. A reception device and method for reassembling the encoded data message based on the punctured data messages is also disclosed.