Wireless Transmitting Device Antenna Delay Diversity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional wireless transmission methods require adjusting spread coefficients and coding coefficients in error correcting coding to achieve frequency diversity effects, which can be challenging, especially when propagation paths have varying delay times and frequency variations.

Innovation Solution

A wireless transmission device that delays transmission signals by a specific time (n-1)T for each antenna, allowing for appropriate setting of delay times based on whether frequency diversity or multiuser diversity transmission is required, thereby producing frequency and multiuser diversity effects without adjusting spread or coding coefficients.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If spread coefficients and coding coefficients are adjusted to achieve frequency diversity effects, then reception quality improves, but system complexity and control difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereception qualityVSAvoidcoefficient control complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the parameter from coefficient adjustment to delay time adjustment. By controlling the delay time T between antenna elements, the system achieves frequency diversity effects through a single parameter (delay time) rather than multiple parameters (spread coefficients and coding coefficients), thereby simplifying control while maintaining reception quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If delay time is increased to produce frequency diversity effects, then reception power improves, but transmission timing synchronization becomes more difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereception powerVSAvoidtiming synchronization
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic delay time adjustment where the delay time T is adaptively controlled based on the specific transmission scenario (frequency diversity vs. multiuser diversity). This allows the system to optimize reception power by setting appropriate delay times while managing timing synchronization requirements dynamically rather than using fixed delays.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentEP1921774B1Wireless transmitting device and wireless transmitting method
Publication Date: 2016.07.20 SNAPTRACK INC
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AI summary

A wireless transmission device of the present invention includes n (where n is an integer of two or more) transmission antennas and a delay imparting section for delaying transmission signals supplied to the n transmission antennas by a maximum delay time (n-1)T or less based on a delay time T dependent upon a communication signal, which indicates whether to transmit the transmission signals by way of frequency diversity or multiuser diversity.