Wireless transmitter and a method for transmitting data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12457560-B2
Application number	US-202217960451-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 5, 2022
Priority date	Apr 21, 2020
Publication date	Oct 28, 2025
Grant date	Oct 28, 2025

Abstract

A positioning method and apparatus, a WLAN device, and a storage medium are disclosed, and relates to the field of positioning technologies. The positioning method includes: a WLAN device obtains an uplink scheduling parameter sent by another WLAN device to a plurality of to-be-positioned WLAN devices, where the uplink scheduling parameter is used to indicate radio resources allocated to the plurality of to-be-positioned WLAN devices; the WLAN device receives uplink signals; and the WLAN device measures respective positioning data of the plurality of to-be-positioned WLAN devices based on the radio resources of the plurality of to-be-positioned WLAN devices and the received uplink signals. The embodiments can improve positioning timeliness of the to-be-positioned WLAN devices.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wireless transmitter configured to transmit data to a wireless receiver using a selected modulation and coding scheme (MCS) of a plurality of MCSs, each MCS defining an upper limit of an error vector magnitude (EVM) corresponding to an upper limit of a transmitted power of the wireless transmitter, wherein the wireless transmitter is configured to:
transmit data to the wireless receiver using the selected MCS and an adjusted transmitted power that is larger or smaller than the upper limit of the transmitted power, when the combined effects of an adjusted EVM and an adjusted received power at the wireless receiver caused by the adjusted transmitted power result in an improved data transmission performance, wherein the improved data transmission performance is a larger signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) at the wireless receiver;
determine whether the combined effects of the adjusted EVM and the adjusted received power caused by the adjusted transmitted power result in a larger SINR at the wireless receiver on the basis of information about a SINR at the wireless receiver for a preceding data transmission; and
estimate a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the wireless receiver for the preceding data transmission on the basis of the information about the SINR at the wireless receiver for the preceding data transmission and a relation between the transmitted power of the wireless transmitter for the preceding data transmission and the EVM resulting from the transmitted power for the preceding data transmission.

2. The wireless transmitter of claim 1 , wherein the wireless transmitter is further configured to obtain the information about the SINR at the wireless receiver for the preceding data transmission from the wireless receiver.

3. The wireless transmitter of claim 1 , wherein for determining whether the combined effects of the adjusted EVM and the adjusted received power caused by the adjusted transmitted power result in a larger SINR at the wireless receiver, the wireless transmitter is further configured to:
estimate a current SNR at the wireless receiver by weighting the SNR at the wireless receiver for the preceding data transmission with the ratio between the adjusted transmitted power and the transmitted power for the preceding data transmission.

4. The wireless transmitter of claim 3 , wherein for determining whether the combined effects of the adjusted EVM and the adjusted received power caused by the adjusted transmitted power result in a larger SINR at the wireless receiver, the wireless transmitter is further configured to:
determine the current SINR at the wireless receiver on the basis of the current SNR at the wireless receiver and the relation between the transmitted power of the wireless transmitter and the EVM resulting from the transmitted power.

5. The wireless transmitter of claim 1 , wherein the wireless transmitter further comprises:
a power amplifier configured to transmit the data to the wireless receiver and the relation between the transmitted power of the wireless transmitter and the EVM resulting from the transmitted power is defined by the power amplifier.

6. The wireless transmitter of claim 1 , wherein the wireless transmitter is further configured to determine the transmitted power which provides the maximal current SINR at the wireless receiver as the adjusted transmitted power.

7. The wireless transmitter of claim 1 , wherein the wireless transmitter is further configured to switch to another MCS, when the combined effects of the adjusted EVM and the adjusted received power caused by the adjusted transmitted power result in a larger SINR at the wireless receiver.

8. The wireless transmitter of claim 1 , wherein the improved data transmission performance is a larger goodput at the wireless receiver and the wireless transmitter is further configured to determine whether the combined effects of the increased EVM and the increased received power caused by the increased transmitted power result in a larger goodput at the wireless receiver for a plurality of increased transmitted powers and a plurality of MCSs.

9. The wireless transmitter of claim 8 , wherein the wireless transmitter is further configured to select the adjusted transmission power and MCS providing the largest goodput at the wireless receiver.

10. The wireless transmitter of claim 9 , wherein the wireless transmitter is further configured to select the adjusted transmission power and the MCS providing the largest goodput at the wireless receiver with a rate control algorithm (RCA).

11. A method for transmitting data from a wireless transmitter to a wireless receiver using a selected modulation and coding scheme (MCS) of a plurality of MCSs, each MCS defining an upper limit of an error-vector-magnitude (EVM) corresponding to an upper limit of a transmitted power used for transmitting data, wherein the method comprises:
transmitting data to the wireless receiver using the selected MCS and an adjusted transmitted power that is larger or smaller than the upper limit of the transmitted power, when the combined effects of an adjusted EVM and an adjusted received power caused by the adjusted transmitted power result in an improved data transmission performance, wherein the improved data transmission performance is a larger signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) at the wireless receiver;
determining whether the combined effects of the adjusted EVM and the adjusted received power caused by the adjusted transmitted power result in a larger SINR at the wireless receiver on the basis of information about a SINR at the wireless receiver for a preceding data transmission; and
estimating a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the wireless receiver for the preceding data transmission on the basis of the information about the SINR at the wireless receiver for the preceding data transmission and a relation between the transmitted power of the wireless transmitter for the preceding data transmission and the EVM resulting from the transmitted power for the preceding data transmission.

12. A computer program product comprising program code stored on a computer readable storage medium which when executed causes a computer or a processor to perform the method according to claim 11 when the program code is executed by the computer or the processor.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Weitzman Avi
• Ezri Doron
• Melzer Ezer
• Patury Shahar
• Jiang Xingfeng

Classifications

• H04W52/262

  taking into account adaptive modulation and coding [AMC] scheme · CPC title

• H04L1/0009

  by adapting the channel coding (H04L1/1812 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04L1/0003

  by switching between different modulation schemes · CPC title

• H04B17/336

  Signal-to-interference ratio [SIR] or carrier-to-interference ratio [CIR] · CPC title

• H04W52/267

  taking into account the information rate · CPC title