Hybrid Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access System And Method
Abstract:
A hybrid orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system including a transmitter 100 and a receiver 200 IF disclosed. The transmitter 100 includes a first spread OFDMA subassembly 130, a first non-spread OFDMA subassembly 140 and a first common subassembly 150. The first spread OFDMA subassembly 130 spreads input data 101 and maps the spread data 103 to a first group of subcarriers 105. The first non-spread OFDMA subassembly 140 maps input data 111 to a second group of subcarriers 115. The first common subassembly 150 transmits the input data mapped to the first and second group of subcarriers using OFDMA. The receiver includes a second spread OFDMA subassembly 230, a second non-spread OFDMA subassembly 240 and a second common subassembly 250. The second common subassembly 250 processes received data to recover data mapped to the subcarriers using OFDMA. The second spread OFDMA subassembly 230 recovers the first input data by separating user data in a code domain and the second non-spread OFDMA subassembly 240 recovers the second input data.
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Inventors
1. ZHANG, Guodong
490 Main Street, Apt.C8, Farmingdale, New York 11735, U.S.A
2. TSAI, Allan Y
10 Jolie Court, Booton, New Jersey 07005, United States of America
3. PAN, Kyle Jung-Lin
43 Avalon Circle, Smithtown, NY 11787, United States of America
Specification
[0001 ] RELATED APPLICATION; PRIORITY CLAIM
This patent application is related to and claims priority from India Patent
Application No. 8197/DELNP/2007, filed 23 October 2007, entitled HYBRID
ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEM AND
METHOD
[0002] FIELD OP INVENTION
[0003] The present invention is related to wireless communication systems.
More particularly, the present invention is related to a hybrid orthogonal
frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system and method.
[0004] BACKGROUND
[0005] It is expected that future wireless communication systems will
provide broadband services such as wireless Internet access to subscribers. Such
broadband services require reliable and high throughput transmissions over a
wireless channel which is time dispersive and frequency selective. The wireless
channel is subject to limited spectrum and inter-symbol interference (ISI) caused
by multipath fading. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and
OFDMA are some of the most promising solutions for the next generation
wireless communication systems.
[0006] OFDM has a high spectral efficiency since the subcarriers used in
the OFDM system overlap in frequency and an adaptive modulation and coding
scheme (MCS) may be employed across subcarriers. In addition, implementation
of the OFDM is very simple because the baseband modulation and demodulation
are performed by simple inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) and fast Fourier
transform (FFT) operations. Other advantages of the OFDM system include a
simplified receiver structure and excellent robustness in a multipath
environment.
[0007] OFDM and OFDMA have been adopted by several wireless/wired
communication standards, such as digital audio broadcast (DAB), digital audio
broadcast terrestrial (DAB-T), IEEE 802.11a/g, IEEE 802.16, asymmetric digital
subscriber line (ADSL) and is being considered for adoption in third generation
partnership project (3GPP) long term evolution (LTE), cdma2000 evolution, a
fourth generation (4G) wireless communication system, IEEE 802.11n, or the
like.
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[0008] One key problem with OFDM and OFDMA is that it is difficult to
mitigate or control inter-cell interference to achieve a frequency reuse factor of
one. Frequency hopping and subcarrier allocation cooperation between cells have
been proposed to mitigate inter-cell interference. However, the effectiveness of
both methods is limited.
[0009] SUMMARY
[0010] The present invention is related to a hybrid OFDMA system and
method. The system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter
includes a first spread OFDMA subassembly, a first non-spread OFDMA
subassembly and a first common subassembly. The first spread OFDMA
subassembly spreads input data and maps the spread data to a first group of
subcarriers. The first non-spread OFDMA subassembly maps input data to a
second group of subcarriers. The first common subassembly transmits the input
data mapped to the first group of subcarriers and the second group of subcarriers
using OFDMA. The receiver includes a second spread OFDMA subassembly, a
second non-spread OFDMA subassembly and a second common subassembly.
The second common subassembly of the receiver processes received data to
recover data mapped to the subcarriers using OFDMA. The second spread
OFDMA subassembly recovers the first input data by separating user data in a
code domain and the second non-spread OFDMA subassembly recovers the
second input data.
[0011] BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0012] Figure 1 is a block diagram of an exemplary hybrid OFDMA system
configured in accordance with the present invention.
[0013] Figure 2 shows an example of frequency domain spreading and
subcarrier mapping in accordance with the present invention.
[0014] Figure 3 shows another example of spreading and subcarrier
mapping in accordance with the present invention.
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[0015] Figure 4 shows an example of time-frequency hopping of subcarriers
in accordance with the present invention.
[0016] Figure 5 is a block diagram of an exemplary time-frequency Rake
combiner configured in accordance with the present invention.
[0017] DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0018] Hereafter, the terminology "transmitter" and "receiver" includes but
are not limited to a user equipment (UE), a wireless transmit/receive unit
(WTRU), a mobile station, a fixed or mobile subscriber unit, a pager, a Node-B, a
base station, a site controller, an access point or any other type of device capable
of operating in a wireless environment.
[0019] The features of the present invention may be incorporated into an
integrated circuit (IC) or be configured in a circuit comprising a multitude of
interconnecting components.
[0020] The present invention is applicable to any wireless communication
system that utilizes OFDMA (or OFDM) and/or code division multiple access
(CDMA), such as IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.16, third generation (3G) cellular
systems, 4G systems, satellite communication systems, or the like.
[0021] Figure 1 is a block diagram of an exemplary hybrid OFDMA system
10 including a transmitter 100 and a receiver 200 in accordance with the present
invention. The transmitter 100 includes a spread OFDMA subassembly 130, a
non-spread OFDMA subassembly 140 and a common subassembly 150. In the
spread OFDMA subassembly 130, input data 101 (for one or more users) is
spread with a spreading code to generate a plurality of chips 103 and the chips
103 are then mapped to subcarriers. In the non-spread OFDMA subassembly
140, input bit 111 (for one or more different users) is mapped to subcarriers
without spreading.
[0022] The spread OFDMA subassembly 130 includes a spreader 102 and a
first subcarrier mapping unit 104. The non-spread OFDMA subassembly 140
includes a serial-to-parallel (S/P) converter 112 and a second subcarrier mapping
unit 114. The common subassembly 150 includes an N-point inverse discrete
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Fourier transform (IDFT) processor 122, a parallel-to-serial (P/S) converter 124
and a cyclic prefix (CP) insertion unit 126.
[0023] Assuming that there are N subcarriers in the system and that K
different users communicate at the same time in the system, among K users, data
to Ks users is transmitted via the spread OFDMA subassembly 130. The
number of subcarriers used in the spread OFDMA subassembly 130 and the nonspread
OFDMA subassembly 140 are Ns and N0, respectively. The values of Ns
and N0 satisfy the conditions that 0