Access node, user equipment, and corresponding apparatuses, methods and computer programs

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12244439-B2
Application number	US-202017756260-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 18, 2020
Priority date	Nov 20, 2019
Publication date	Mar 4, 2025
Grant date	Mar 4, 2025

Abstract

An access node, user equipment, apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for a communication system. An apparatus for a wireless transmitter device includes a transmitter module for transmitting wireless transmissions and a processing module, which controls the transmitter module. The processing module generates one or more transmit symbols in a Delay-Doppler domain to obtain a Delay-Doppler representation; transforms the Delay-Doppler representation into a Time-Frequency domain to obtain a Time-Frequency representation, the Time-Frequency representation having a first bandwidth and a first duration; adds pilot symbols to the Time-Frequency representation to obtain a Time-Frequency representation with an extended second bandwidth or an extended second duration; transforms the Time-Frequency representation with the extended second bandwidth or the extended second duration to the time domain to obtain a time domain representation; and transmits the time domain representation to a wireless receiver device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus for a wireless transmitter device, the apparatus comprising:
a transmitter module configured to transmit wireless transmissions; and
a processing module configured to control the transmitter module,
wherein, the processing module is further configured to, prior to transmission of a wireless transmission:
generate one or more transmit symbols in a Delay-Doppler domain to obtain a Delay-Doppler representation,
transform the obtained Delay-Doppler representation into a Time-Frequency domain to obtain a Time-Frequency representation of the generated one or more transmit symbols, the Time-Frequency representation having a first frequency bandwidth and a first time duration,
spread the Time-Frequency representation having the first frequency bandwidth, the first duration in time, or both, to generate resources in the Time-Frequency representation for insertion of pilot symbols,
add pilot symbols to the spread Time-Frequency representation to obtain a Time-Frequency representation with a second frequency bandwidth or a second time duration, wherein the second frequency bandwidth and the second time duration are extended relative to the first frequency bandwidth and first time duration, respectively;
transform the Time-Frequency representation with the extended second frequency bandwidth or the extended time second duration to the time domain to obtain a time domain representation with the extended second frequency bandwidth or extended second time duration; and
transmit the time domain representation with the extended second frequency bandwidth or extended time second duration to a wireless receiver device for subsequent processing to obtain the Time-Frequency representation with the first frequency bandwidth and first time duration.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processing module is configured to use an accordion-shaped spread to spread the Time-Frequency representation having the first frequency bandwidth and the first time duration before adding the pilot symbols.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the Time-Frequency representation having the first frequency bandwidth and the first time duration comprises a time-frequency grid, and wherein the processing module is further configured to extend the grid to open up grid points for adding the pilot symbols.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processing module is further configured to add a pilot grid to the Time-Frequency representation having the first frequency bandwidth and the first time duration, wherein spacings in the pilot grid are adapted to a coherence time of a wireless channel with reduced fast fading influence.

5. An access node of a wireless communication system comprising the apparatus of claim 1 .

6. An access node of a wireless communication system comprising the apparatus of claim 1 .

7. User equipment for a wireless communication system comprising the apparatus of claim 1 .

8. An apparatus for a wireless receiver device, the apparatus comprising:
a receiver module for receiving wireless transmissions; and
a processing module configured to control the receiver module, to receive a time domain representation of a signal from a wireless transmitter device,
wherein the processing module is further configured to:
transform the received time domain representation to a Time-Frequency representation, the Time-Frequency representation having an extended frequency bandwidth or an extended time duration,
de-spread the Time-Frequency representation having the extended frequency bandwidth, the extended duration in time, or both, to generate resources in the Time-Frequency representation with pilot symbols,
remove pilot symbols from the Time-Frequency representation to obtain a Time-Frequency representation with an unextended frequency bandwidth and an unextended time duration,
transform the Time-Frequency representation with the unextended frequency bandwidth or the unextended time duration into a Delay-Doppler domain to obtain a Delay-Doppler representation; and
determine estimated transmit symbols based on the Delay-Doppler representation.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the processing module is further configured to estimate a wireless channel based on the pilot symbols and determine the estimated transmit symbols based on the estimated wireless channel.

10. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the processing module is further configured to perform compressed sensing of the wireless channel based on the pilot symbols.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the processing module is further configured to perform the compressed sensing of the wireless channel based on the pilot symbols under the assumption that a representation of the wireless channel in the Delay-Doppler domain is sparse.

12. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the Time-Frequency representation having the extended frequency bandwidth or the extended time duration comprises a time-frequency grid, and wherein the processing module is further configured to delete the pilot symbols and pilot symbol grid points from the time-frequency grid to obtain the Time-Frequency representation with the unextended frequency bandwidth and the unextended time duration.

13. User equipment for a wireless communication system comprising the apparatus of claim 8 .

14. A method for a wireless transmitter device, the method comprising:
generating one or more transmit symbols in a Delay-Doppler domain to obtain a Delay-Doppler representation;
transforming the obtained Delay-Doppler representation into a Time-Frequency domain to obtain a Time-Frequency representation, the Time-Frequency representation having a first frequency bandwidth and a first time duration;
spreading the Time-Frequency representation having the first frequency bandwidth, the first duration in time, or both, to generate resources in the Time-Frequency representation for insertion of pilot symbols;
adding pilot symbols to the Time-Frequency representation to obtain a Time-Frequency representation with a second frequency bandwidth or a second time duration, wherein the second frequency bandwidth and the second time duration are extended relative to the first frequency bandwidth and first time duration, respectively;
transforming the Time-Frequency representation with the extended second frequency bandwidth or the extended second time duration to the time domain to obtain a time domain representation with the extended second frequency bandwidth or the extended second time duration; and
transmitting the time domain representation with the extended second frequency bandwidth or the extended second time duration to a wireless receiver device for subsequent processing to obtain the Time-Frequency representation with the first frequency bandwidth and the first time duration.

15. A non transitory computer readable medium including a computer program having a program code for performing at least one of the methods of claim 14 , when the computer program is executed on a computer, a processor, or a programmable hardware component.

16. A method for a wireless receiver device, the method comprising:
receiving a time domain representation of a receive signal from a wireless transmitter device;
transforming the received time domain representation to a Time-Frequency representation, the Time-Frequency representation having an extended frequency bandwidth or an extended time duration;
de-spreading the Time-Frequency representation having the extended frequency bandwidth, the extended duration in time, or both, to generate resources in the Time-Frequency representation w

Assignees

• Fraunhofer Ges Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten E V
• Fraunhofer Ges Forschung

Inventors

• Pfadler Andreas
• Stanczek Slawomir
• Jung Peter

Classifications

• H04L27/2639

  Modulators using other transforms, e.g. discrete cosine transforms, Orthogonal Time Frequency and Space [OTFS] or hermetic transforms · CPC title

• H04L5/0051 Primary

  of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal · CPC title

• H04L5/0023

  Time-frequency-space · CPC title

• H04L27/26532

  Demodulators using other transforms, e.g. discrete cosine transforms, Orthogonal Time Frequency and Space [OTFS] or hermetic transforms · CPC title

• H04L25/0224 Primary

  using sounding signals · CPC title