IP Library Granted Patent US 8,000,376
Granted Patent B2
US 8,000,376 · App. 12/009,712 · Granted Aug 16, 2011

Adjusting a transmit time of a wireless device

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Patent No.
US 8,000,376
App. No.
12/009,712
Granted
Aug 16, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods of adjusting a transmit time of a wireless device are disclosed. One method includes a receiver determining a frequency hopping sequence of an interfering signal. The receiver obtains an observed pattern of at least one of time and frequency overlap between the interfering signal and a signal of interest. The receiver determines a desired pattern of at least one of time and frequency overlap between the interfering signal and the signal of interest. A desired transmit time delay of the signal of interest is adjusted based on a difference between the observed pattern and the desired pattern.

Claims (36)

1. A method of adjusting a transmit time of a transmitter of a signal of interest (SOI), comprising:

determining, by a receiver, a frequency hopping sequence of an interfering signal;

measuring, by a the receiver, a received signal power of a receive signal through a select band of the frequency hopping sequence over time, wherein the receive signal includes the signal of interest and the interfering signal, wherein the signal of interest comprises multi-carrier symbols and the interfering signal comprises interfering multi-carrier symbols;

identifying, by the receiver, a pattern of the interfering multi-carrier symbols of the interfering signal from the received signal power;

based on the transmit time of the multi-carrier symbols and the pattern of the interfering multi-carrier symbols, selecting a desired transmit time delay to reduce at least one of time and frequency overlap between the multi-carrier symbols and the interfering multi-carrier symbols; and

adjusting, by the transmitter, the transmit time of the signal of interest based on the desired transmit time delay.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the frequency hopping sequence of the interfering signal comprises obtaining a priori knowledge of the frequency hopping sequence of the interfering signal.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiver measures the received signal power of the received signal for a long enough period of time to allow the receiver to identify the pattern.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiver monitors the received signal when the receiver has information indicating that the signal of interest is not present.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiver monitors the received signal when the receiver has information indicating that the interfering signal is not present.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein selecting the desired transmit time delay further comprises selecting the desired transmit time delay to reduce a number of the multi-carrier symbols of the signal of interest that are impacted by the interfering signal.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

estimating a clock timing offset between the signal of interest and the interfering signal; and

adjusting the transmit time based on the clock timing offset.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein estimating the clock timing offset between the signal of interest and the interfering signal comprises:

determining, by the receiver, an interference signal clock offset relative to a receiver clock by decoding preamble information of packets of the interfering signal;

determining, by the receiver, a signal of interest clock offset relative to the receiver clock by decoding the preamble information of packets of the signal of interest; and

estimating the clock timing offset by a difference between the interference signal clock offset and the signal of interest clock offset.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiver provides the transmitter with the desired transmit time delay by adjusting an acknowledgement time delay of acknowledgements to received packets of the signal of interest.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

estimating, by the receiver, a clock timing offset between the signal of interest and the interfering signal; and

adjusting, by the receiver, the acknowledgement time delay of the acknowledgements, wherein adjusting the acknowledgement time delay of the acknowledgements is based on the clock timing offset.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising providing the transmitter of the signal of interest with the desired transmit time delay.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the receiver which provides a rate to the transmitter with the desired transmit time delay is dependent on how rapidly the desired transmit time delay varies with time.

13. The method of claim 11 , further comprising filtering by the receiver, the desired transmit time delay and providing the transmitter with the filtered desired transmit time delay.

14. The method of claim 1 , further comprising providing the transmitter of the signal of interest, with the pattern.

15. A method of coordinating wireless transmission of a signal of interest, wherein the signal of interest includes multi-carrier symbols, between a transmitter and a receiver, comprising:

measuring, by the receiver, a received signal power of a receive signal through a select band of a frequency hopping sequence over time, wherein the receive signal includes the signal of interest and an interfering signal, wherein the interfering signal comprises interfering multi-carrier symbols;

identifying a pattern of the interfering multi-carrier symbols of the interfering signal from the received signal power;

adjusting a desired transmit time delay of the signal of interest based on characteristics of the pattern; and

adjusting, by the transmitter, a timing of transmission of the multi-carrier symbols by the desired transmit time delay.

16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising estimating a Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR) for each sub-carrier of the multi-carrier symbols based on the pattern, the received signal power, an interference signal power, and a channel response of the signal of interest.

17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising estimating the channel response of the interfering signal based on the pattern.

18. The method of claim 16 , further comprising estimating a received Packet Error Rate (PER) based on the SINR for each sub-carrier of the multi-carrier symbols and coding of information of the sub-carriers of the multi-carrier symbols at the transmitter.

19. The method of claim 18 , further comprising:

adjusting the desired transmit time delay to reduce the estimated PER of the signal of interest.

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