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Granted Patent B2
US 10,103,792 · App. 15/084,849 · Granted Oct 16, 2018

Apparatus, system and method of communicating a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) transmission

Inventors: Artyom Lomayev (Nizhny Novgorod, RU); Alexander Maltsev (Nizhny Novgorod, RU); Carlos Cordeiro (Portland, OR); Michael Genossar (Modiin, IL)
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
H04B7/0413H04B7/06H04L27/2607H04L27/2646
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Patent No.
US 10,103,792
App. No.
15/084,849
Granted
Oct 16, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

For example, a wireless station may be configured to generate a plurality of time-domain streams in a time domain, the plurality of time-domain streams comprising at least a first time-domain stream comprising a first data sequence in a first interval and a second time-domain stream comprising a second data sequence in the first interval, the first time-domain stream comprises a time-inverted and sign-inverted complex conjugate of the second data sequence in a second interval subsequent to the first interval, and the second time-domain stream comprises a time-inverted complex conjugate of the first data sequence in the second interval; to convert the plurality of time-domain streams into a respective plurality of frequency-domain streams in a frequency domain; and to transmit a Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmission based on the plurality of frequency-domain streams.

Claims (37)

1. An apparatus comprising logic and circuitry configured to cause a wireless station to:

generate a plurality of time-domain streams in a time domain, the plurality of time-domain streams comprising at least a first time-domain stream comprising a first data sequence in a first interval and a second time-domain stream comprising a second data sequence in the first interval, the first time-domain stream comprises a time-inverted and sign-inverted complex conjugate of the second data sequence in a second interval subsequent to the first interval, and the second time-domain stream comprises a time-inverted complex conjugate of the first data sequence in the second interval, wherein the first time-domain stream comprises a first Guard Interval (GI) prior to the first data sequence, a second GI following the first data sequence, and a third GI following the second data sequence, the first, second and third GI are based on a GI sequence of a predefined length;

convert the plurality of time-domain streams into a respective plurality of frequency-domain streams in a frequency domain;

map the plurality of frequency domain streams to at least a first frequency-domain spatial stream and a second frequency-domain spatial stream, the first frequency-domain spatial stream comprising a first data symbol of the first data sequence mapped to a subcarrier of a first frequency symbol, the second frequency-domain spatial stream comprising a second data symbol of the second data sequence mapped to the subcarrier of the first frequency symbol; and

transmit a Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmission based on the plurality of frequency-domain streams.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein, in the first interval, the first time-domain stream comprises the GI sequence following the first data sequence, and a time-inverted complex conjugate of the GI sequence prior to the first data sequence, and wherein, in the second interval, the first time-domain stream comprises the GI sequence following the time-inverted and sign-inverted complex conjugate of the second data sequence, and a time-inverted and sign-inverted complex conjugate of the GI sequence prior to the time-inverted and sign-inverted complex conjugate of the second data sequence.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein, in the first interval, the second time-domain stream comprises the GI sequence following the second data sequence, and the time-inverted and sign-inverted complex conjugate of the GI sequence prior to the second data sequence, and wherein, in the second interval, the second time-domain stream comprises the GI sequence following the time-inverted complex conjugate of the first data sequence, and the time-inverted complex conjugate of the GI sequence prior to the time-inverted complex conjugate of the first data sequence.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the GI sequence has a length of M samples, and each of the first and second data sequences has a length of (N−2M) samples, wherein N denotes a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) size of each of the first and second intervals.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the GI sequence has a length of 32 samples or 64 samples.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the GI sequence comprises a Golay sequence.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to cause the wireless station to map the plurality of frequency domain streams to a plurality of frequency domain spatial streams according to a Space Time Block Code (STBC) scheme.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the STBC scheme comprises an Alamouti scheme.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first frequency-domain spatial stream comprises a sign-inverted complex conjugate of the second data symbol mapped to a subcarrier of a second frequency symbol, the second frequency-domain spatial stream comprises a complex conjugate of the first data symbol mapped to the subcarrier of the second frequency symbol.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first and second time-domain streams comprise Cyclic Prefix (CP) extensions.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to cause the wireless station to transmit a first spatial stream of the MIMO transmission via a first antenna and a second spatial stream of the MIMO transmission via a second antenna.

12. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the MIMO transmission comprises a Single Carrier (SC) MIMO transmission.

13. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the MIMO transmission comprises a 2×N R MIMO transmission, wherein N R is an integer equal to or greater than 1.

14. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to cause the wireless station to transmit the MIMO transmission over a Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) band.

15. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the wireless station is a Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) Station (STA).

16. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising a plurality of directional antennas to transmit the MIMO transmission.

17. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising a radio, a memory, and a processor.

18. A method to be performed at a wireless station, the method comprising:

generating a plurality of time-domain streams in a time domain, the plurality of time-domain streams comprising at least a first time-domain stream comprising a first data sequence in a first interval and a second time-domain stream comprising a second data sequence in the first interval, the first time-domain stream comprises a time-inverted and sign-inverted complex conjugate of the second data sequence in a second interval subsequent to the first interval, and the second time-domain stream comprises a time-inverted complex conjugate of the first data sequence in the second interval, wherein the first time-domain stream comprises a first Guard interval (GI) prior to the first data sequence, a second GI following the first data sequence, and a third GI following the second data sequence, the first, second and third GI are based on a GI sequence of a predefined length;

converting the plurality of time-domain streams into a respective plurality of frequency-domain streams in a frequency domain;

mapping the plurality of frequency domain streams to at least a first frequency-domain spatial stream and a second frequency-domain spatial stream, the first frequency-domain spatial stream comprising a first data symbol of the first data sequence mapped to a subcarrier of a first frequency symbol, the second frequency-domain spatial stream comprising a second data symbol of the second data sequence mapped to the subcarrier of the first frequency symbol; and

transmitting a Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmission based on the plurality of frequency-domain streams.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein, in the first interval, the first time-domain stream comprises the GI sequence following the first data sequence, and a time-inverted complex conjugate of the GI sequence prior to the first data sequence, and wherein, in the second interval, the first time-domain stream comprises the GI sequence following the time-inverted and sign-inverted complex conjugate of the second data sequence, and a time-inverted and sign-inverted complex conjugate of the GI sequence prior to the time-inverted and sign-inverted complex conjugate of the second data sequence.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein, in the first interval, the second time-domain stream comprises the GI sequence following the second data sequence, and the time-inverted and sign-inverted complex conjugate of the GI sequence prior to the second data sequence, and wherein, in the second interval, the second time-domain stream comprises the GI sequence following the time-inverted complex conjugate of the first data sequence, and the time-inverted complex conjugate of the GI sequence prior to the time-inverted complex conjugate of the first data sequence.

21. A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one processor, enable the at least one processor to cause a wireless station to:

generate a plurality of time-domain streams in a time domain, the plurality of time-domain streams comprising at least a first time-domain stream comprising a first data sequence in a first interval and a second time-domain stream comprising a second data sequence in the first interval, the first time-domain stream comprises a time-inverted and sign-inverted complex conjugate of the second data sequence in a second interval subsequent to the first interval, and the second time-domain stream comprises a time-inverted complex conjugate of the first data sequence in the second interval, wherein the first time-domain stream comprises a first Guard Interval (GI) prior to the first data sequence, a second GI following the first data sequence, and a third GI following the second data sequence, the first, second and third GI are based on a GI sequence of a predefined length;

convert the plurality of time-domain streams into a respective plurality of frequency-domain streams in a frequency domain;

map the plurality of frequency domain streams to at least a first frequency-domain spatial stream and a second frequency-domain spatial stream, the first frequency-domain spatial stream comprising a first data symbol of the first data sequence mapped to a subcarrier of a first frequency symbol, the second frequency-domain spatial stream comprising a second data symbol of the second data sequence mapped to the subcarrier of the first frequency symbol; and

transmit a Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmission based on the plurality of frequency-domain streams.

22. The product of claim 21 , wherein, in the first interval, the first time-domain stream comprises the GI sequence following the first data sequence, and a time-inverted complex conjugate of the GI sequence prior to the first data sequence, and wherein, in the second interval, the first time-domain stream comprises the GI sequence following the time-inverted and sign-inverted complex conjugate of the second data sequence, and a time-inverted and sign-inverted complex conjugate of the GI sequence prior to the time-inverted and sign-inverted complex conjugate of the second data sequence.

23. The product of claim 22 , wherein, in the first interval, the second time-domain stream comprises the GI sequence following the second data sequence, and the time-inverted and sign-inverted complex conjugate of the GI sequence prior to the second data sequence, and wherein, in the second interval, the second time-domain stream comprises the GI sequence following the time-inverted complex conjugate of the first data sequence, and the time-inverted complex conjugate of the GI sequence prior to the time-inverted complex conjugate of the first data sequence.

24. The product of claim 21 , wherein the GI sequence has a length of M samples, and each of the first and second data sequences has a length of (N−2M) samples, wherein N denotes a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) size of each of the first and second intervals.

25. The product of claim 21 , wherein the first frequency-domain spatial stream comprises a sign-inverted complex conjugate of the second data symbol mapped to a subcarrier of a second frequency symbol, the second frequency-domain spatial stream comprises a complex conjugate of the first data symbol mapped to the subcarrier of the second frequency symbol.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 18, 2016
From: LOMAYEV, ARTYOM; MALTSEV, ALEXANDER; CORDEIRO, CARLOS; GENOSSAR, MICHAEL
To: INTEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 038300/0444 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62278593 · Jan 14, 2016
Related Publication 20170207830A1 · Jul 20, 2017