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Smart Antenna System for 802.11A Applications

Technology Application

The invention will find applications in RF receiver design for WLAN OFDM systems with multiple antennas. It is also anticipated to be a good candidate for OFDM systems using a more complex frequency-domain combining. For example, in a system with four receiver antennas, MSCS combining can be employed to yield two outputs with an optimized SNR for subsequent maximal ration combining, thereby requiring only two complex A/D and DFTs.

Detailed Technology Description

Given here is an innovative multiple sub-carrier selection diversity receiver architecture for WLAN OFDM systems with multiple antennas. With a small increase in analog complexity, it is shown that significant gain can be achieved by the proposed technique over selection diversity for WLAN OFDM systems. The technique requires only a single A/D and DFT, which eases the baseband hardware requirements significantly.

Supplementary Information

Patent Number: US8462868B2
Application Number: US2007662516A
Inventor: Sun, Yang | Gudem, Prasad S. | Larson, Lawrence E.
Priority Date: 23 Sep 2004
Priority Number: US8462868B2
Application Date: 12 Jul 2007
Publication Date: 11 Jun 2013
IPC Current: H04B000702 | H04L000102
US Class: 375267 | 375259 | 375260
Assignee Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
Title: Multiple sub-carrier selection diversity architecture and method for wireless OFDM
Usefulness: Multiple sub-carrier selection diversity architecture and method for wireless OFDM
Summary: For e.g. wireless local area network, cellular communications network, and satellite radio and satellite television networks.
Novelty: Multiple sub-carrier selection combining receiver for e.g. wireless local area network, has filter to separately pass separate portions of predetermined Orthogonal Division Multiplexing (ODM) frequency band from each of multiple antennas

Industry

ICT/Telecom

Sub Category

Telecommunication

Application No.

8462868

Others

Related Materials

A detailed paper on this invention can be reviewed under available NDA.

Tech ID/UC Case

21068/2004-191-0

Related Cases

2004-191-0

*Abstract

None

*IP Issue Date

Jun 11, 2013

*Principal Investigator

Name: Prasad Gudem

Department:

Name: Lawrence Larson

Department:

Name: Yang Sun

Department:

Country/Region

USA