Showing papers by "John D. Reed published in 1993"

Method for recovering a data signal using diversity in a radio frequency, time division multiple access communication system

Abstract: In a time division multiple access (TDMA) system (10), a method (50, 60) of recovering a data signal of a transmission burst commences by obtaining the frequency transmission codes for the transmitters to be monitored (52, 62). The data signal is then received in separate transmission bursts from a first transmitter in a first time period (53, 65) and from a second transmitter in a second time period (56, 65). The data signal of one of the received transmission bursts is then selected or a plurality of the data signals are combined (58, 69) to be used by the receiver as the received data signal.