Method and device for estimating transmitted signals in a receiver in digital signal transmission operations
US5533067A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 23, 1994 |
| Grant date | Jul 2, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 23, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L25/0212
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In a digital signal transmission system, a receiver receives a signal, wherein the signal bandwidth of the system exceeds the system symbol rate. A correlation and sampling circuit receives a baseband signal, samples the signal eight times per symbol time, correlates, generates a channel estimate and down-samples the sampled signal to form an observed signal. This signal is filtered in a prefilter, whose output is sampled at symbol rate and the obtained signal is delivered to a channel equalizer which performs a viterbi algorithm with non-quadratic metric calculation and generates estimated symbols. A channel estimation filter receives a symbol sequence which contains alternate zero-value symbols and the estimated symbols and generates an estimated signal. An error signal is generated and used to adapt the channel estimate and also to generate weight factors. The coefficients of the prefilter are generated as a function of the channel estimate and the weight factors. Coefficients are generated in a metric calculation filter, by convolving the channel estimate with the prefilter and are used to generate the estimated symbols. The transmission channel, excluding the prefilter, is est…
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