Uplink Control Signal Diversity via Bit Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current radio communication systems face challenges in enhancing transmit diversity, particularly in LTE, where the existing methods fail to effectively reduce cross-channel and multipath interference, leading to suboptimal performance in signal reception.

Innovation Solution

The solution involves segmenting uplink control bit sequences into groups, encoding each group for error correction, and mapping symbols to different antenna ports for diversity transmission, utilizing techniques such as bit segmentation, error correction encoding, and symbol mapping to enhance transmit diversity.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If transmit diversity is implemented by sending signals from different antennas, then signal reception reliability is improved, but cross-channel and multipath interference is not effectively reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesignal reception reliabilityVSAvoidcross-channel and multipath interference
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the coded bits into different groups and assigns them to different antenna ports for transmission. This segmentation ensures that bits from the same codeword are transmitted through multiple antennas, providing diversity while reducing the impact of cross-channel and multipath interference on the overall signal reception.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Device complexity

If all coded bits are transmitted from a single antenna, then device complexity is reduced, but transmit diversity performance is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice complexityVSAvoidtransmit diversity performance
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides coded bits into different groups and assigns them to different antenna ports. This segmentation approach enables transmit diversity without requiring complex reconfiguration of the transmission system, as each antenna transmits a subset of the coded bits independently.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces spatial diversity by transmitting coded bits across multiple antenna ports, adding a spatial dimension to the transmission. This dimensional expansion improves reliability without significantly increasing device complexity, as the segmentation and assignment process follows a systematic approach.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Reliability

If bits from the same codeword are transmitted from different antennas, then diversity order is increased, but signal processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvediversity orderVSAvoidsignal processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments coded bits into different groups and assigns them to different antenna ports in a systematic manner. This segmentation ensures that bits from the same codeword are transmitted through multiple antennas, increasing diversity order while maintaining manageable signal processing complexity through structured assignment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP2742625B1Transmit diversity for pre-coded radio control signals
Publication Date: 2015.08.12 TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
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AI summary

Sequences of pre-coded radio control signals are rearranged to enhance diversity transmission. In one example, a sequence of uplink control bits is segmented to form a plurality of groups. The bits of each of the plurality of groups are error correction encoded and encoded into symbols. The symbols are mapped to different ports for diversity transmission through a plurality of ports.