摘要:
Correlation times for a RAKE receiver are determined from time differentials between multipath components of a received signal based on correlation metrics, preferably signal strength measurements, associated with the multipath components. According to various embodiments of the present invention, selection strategies are employed in which “desired signal collecting” and “interference collecting” correlation times may be selected using average optimal (AO) or instantaneous optimal (IO) selection criteria. These criteria may include, for example, thresholds for signal strengths associated with multipath components of a signal at the correlation times, where the signal strengths may include absolute or relative measures of signal power or signal to noise ratio. According to alternative embodiments, correlation times are selected using an inverse filter of an estimated channel response. Related apparatus is also described.
摘要:
A method and apparatus removes bias from an initial signal-to-interference ratio (SIR). In an exemplary embodiment, an initial SIR calculator in an SIR processor calculates the initial SIR based on the signal received by the wireless receiver, while an average SIR calculator in the SIR processor generates an average SIR. Using the average SIR, a bias remover removes the bias from the initial SIR.
摘要:
Interference, such as inter-symbol interference, from a symbol of interest in a RAKE receiver is reduced. The RAKE receiver comprises a plurality of RAKE fingers, a processor, and a combiner. The plurality of RAKE fingers despread symbols received over multiple paths of a multi-path channel. The processor determines cross-correlations between symbol waveforms from different symbols and multiple paths. The combiner combines the despread symbols using the cross-correlations to reduce interference from the symbol of interest.
摘要:
A method for estimating a plurality of delay values in a multi-path communication signal. Correlation values are generated that correspond to a plurality of delay values associated with the multi-path communication signal. A first power-delay profile (PDP) sequence is produced from the correlation values and is used to estimate a first delay value. A first reference PDP sequence is generated based on a predefined PDP sequence and the first PDP sequence. The first reference PDP sequence is removed from the first PDP sequence so as to remove at least a portion of the contributions to the first PDP sequence from the first delay value, and to provide a second PDP sequence. A second value is estimated based on the second PDP sequence.
摘要:
A delay spread is created in a digital radio signal to reduce the coherence bandwidth and facilitate frequency hopping to reduce the effect of fading losses within an enclosed propagation environment The delay spread is introduced into the signal in several ways. One technique disclosed employs a transmitter with two separate antennas one of which transmits the digital signal and the other of which transmits the same signal after a phase delay has been introduced into the signal. The carrier frequency of the signals is hopped between at least two frequencies and the receiver processes the resulting signals. In another embodiment, a single transmit antenna is used but the signal is received by two different antennas with the output signal from one of those antennas being phase delayed before combining it with the other prior to processing by the receiver circuitry. Phase delay is also introduced at baseband into the signals to be transmitted by rotating the I and Q components of the waveforms before modulation.
摘要:
A communications signal representing symbols encoded according to respective portions of a spreading sequence is decoded. Time-offset correlations of the communications signal with the spreading sequence are generated. The time-offset correlations are combined to generate first estimates for the symbols. Intersymbol interference factors that include a relationship among different portions of the spreading sequence are determined, and a second estimate for one of the symbols is generated from the first estimates based on the determined intersymbol interference factors. An intersymbol interference factor may include a relationship between a first portion of the spreading sequence associated with the one symbol to a second portion of the spreading sequence associated with another symbol and may be determined, for example, from the spreading sequence and a channel estimate for a channel over which the communications signal is communicated. The invention may be embodied as methods and apparatus, for example, as a receiver included in a communications apparatus, such as a wireless terminal, wireless base station, or other wireless, wireline or optical communications apparatus.
摘要:
Information encoded in a spread spectrum signal transmitted in a communications medium is recovered. A composite signal including a spread spectrum signal is received from the communications medium, and correlated with a spreading sequence to generate time-offset correlations. Respective first and second groups of the correlations are combined, e.g., according to estimated channel coefficients, to produce respective first and second combined values. The first and second combined values are then combined in a manner that compensates for correlated impairment in the composite signal to generate an estimate information in the transmitted spread spectrum signal, e.g., using weighting factors generated from an estimated composite channel response and an estimated impairment correlation, or adaptively generated weighting factors. Related apparatus are also described.
摘要:
A communications signal including components associated with desired and interfering signals that are modulated according to respective first and second modulation sequences is processed to generate a baseband signal. The baseband signal is correlated with the first modulation sequence, e.g., a combination of a first scrambling sequence and a first spreading sequence, to produce a first correlation output. The baseband signal is also correlated with a combination of the first modulation sequence and a complex component (e.g., a second scrambling sequence) of the second modulation sequence, to generate a second correlation output. The first and second correlation outputs are combined to generate an estimate of information represented by the first signal, for example, by combining the first and second correlation outputs to produce a first RAKE finger output and combining the first RAKE finger output with a second RAKE finger output to generate an estimate of information represented by the desired signal. Related receiver apparatus is also discussed.
摘要:
A device and method for receiving and reconstructing signals with improved perceived signal quality in a digital communications system is disclosed. The device and method utilize side information defining the quality or accuracy of recovered digital symbols representing an information signal and also utilizing past frame erasure information to determine whether to erase or use a frame to reconstruct the original information signal even though an error detection mechanism indicates that no error exists in the recovered digital symbols of the frame.
摘要:
In a communications system wherein a broadcast signal is received by a plurality of antennas each connected to a receiver, the resulting plurality of received signals are jointly subjected to automatic frequency correction (AFC) before interference rejection combining (IRC) or maximal ratio combining (MRC) processing to output an estimate of the broadcast signal. The joint automatic frequency correction processing involves computing and applying a frequency offset on a sample by sample basis to each of the received signals to output corresponding frequency corrected received signals for IRC or MRC processing.