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Granted Patent B2
US 11,695,455 · App. 17/626,110 · Granted Jul 4, 2023

Wireless communication system, relay device, and receiving device

Inventors: Naotaka Shibata (Musashino, JP); Jun Terada (Musashino, JP); Shinsuke Ibi (Musashino, JP); Seiichi Sanpei (Musashino, JP)
Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
H04B7/0417H04B7/0426H04B7/0478H04W16/28
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Patent No.
US 11,695,455
App. No.
17/626,110
Granted
Jul 4, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A relay device relaying, to a reception device, a signal stream transmitted by a transmission device through MIMO transmission, the relay device including a lattice base reduction processing unit transforming bases of the signal stream transmitted by the transmission device through MIMO transmission, to increase orthogonality of a lattice of the signal stream, a MIMO equalization unit detecting, by equalization, reception symbols in the signal stream with the bases transformed by the lattice base reduction processing unit, a symbol quantization unit performing quantization by mapping the reception symbols detected by the MIMO equalization unit, to a region on a complex plane delimited by quantization threshold values, and a transmission unit transmitting, to the reception device, at least a signal quantized by the symbol quantization unit.

Claims (28)

1. A radio communication system comprising:

a reception device; and

a relay device configured to relay a signal stream transmitted by a transmission device through MIMO transmission to the reception device,

wherein the relay device includes

a lattice base reduction processing unit configured to transform bases of the signal stream transmitted by the transmission device through MIMO transmission, to increase orthogonality of a lattice of the signal stream,

a MIMO equalization unit configured to detect, by equalization, reception symbols in the signal stream with the bases transformed by the lattice base reduction processing unit,

a symbol quantization unit configured to perform quantization by mapping the reception symbols detected by the MIMO equalization unit, to a region on a complex plane delimited by quantization threshold values, and

a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the reception device, at least a signal quantized by the symbol quantization unit, and

the reception device includes

a reception unit configured to receive the signal transmitted by the transmission unit and

a signal detection unit configured to detect the signal stream with the bases transformed by the lattice base reduction processing unit, in the signal received by the reception unit.

2. The radio communication system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the reception device further includes a storage unit configured to store probability mass functions calculated in advance for respective quantization symbols obtained by the symbol quantization unit by quantizing the reception symbols, and

the signal detection unit detects the signal stream by using the probability mass functions stored in the storage unit.

3. The radio communication system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the transmission unit transmits the reception symbols detected by the MIMO equalization unit or a predetermined unimodular matrix, based on a request from the reception device.

4. A relay device for relaying, to a reception device, a signal stream transmitted by a transmission device through MIMO transmission, the relay device comprising:

a lattice base reduction processing unit configured to transform bases of the signal stream transmitted by the transmission device through MIMO transmission, to increase orthogonality of a lattice of the signal stream;

a MIMO equalization unit configured to detect, by equalization, reception symbols in the signal stream with the bases transformed by the lattice base reduction processing unit;

a symbol quantization unit configured to perform quantization by mapping the reception symbols detected by the MIMO equalization unit, to a region on a complex plane delimited by quantization threshold values; and

a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the reception device, at least a signal quantized by the symbol quantization unit.

5. The relay device according to claim 4 ,

wherein the transmission unit transmits a reception symbol detected by the MIMO equalization unit or a predetermined unimodular matrix, based on a request from the reception device.

6. A reception device for receiving, via relay by a relay device, a signal stream transmitted by a transmission device through MIMO transmission, the reception device comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive the signal relayed by the relay device; and

a signal detection unit configured to detect the signal stream with bases transformed in the signal received by the reception unit, to increase orthogonality of a lattice of the signal stream, based on a signal quantized by mapping symbols of the signal stream with the bases transformed, to a region on a complex plane delimited by quantization threshold values.

7. The reception device according to claim 6 , further comprising a storage unit configured to store probability mass functions calculated in advance for respective quantization symbols obtained by quantizing symbols of the signal stream with the bases transformed,

wherein the signal detection unit detects the signal stream by using the probability mass functions stored in the storage unit.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 10, 2022
From: SHIBATA, NAOTAKA; TERADA, JUN; IBI, SHINSUKE; SANPEI, SEIICHI
To: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 058612/0533 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-132666 · Jul 18, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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