Method of and apparatus for interference rejection combining in multi-antenna digital cellular communications systems
US5680419A · kind A · utility
Assignee
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 2, 1994 |
| Grant date | Oct 21, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 2, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W16/28
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A digital radio communications system is presented in which the deleterious effects of fading, time dispersion and interference found in the channel are mitigated by using interference rejection and diversity combining. Digital signals representative of digital symbol sequences are transmitted through a radio channel in which the signals may be corrupted by fading, time dispersion and interference. The corrupted signals are received by a receiver having one or more antennas. The received signals are processed to form a received signal sample stream r.sub.d (kT.sub.s) for each of the antennas. Estimated received signal samples for each of the antennas are produced by combining hypothesized signal sequences and models of each channel. The received signal samples and the estimated received signal samples are processed in conjunction with an estimate of the impairment correlation properties to produce branch metrics to be used by a Viterbi, or other sequence estimation, algorithm. The branch metric processor may assume one of several configurations depending on whether or not the channel is time-varying.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.