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Pilot interference cancellation for a coherent wireless code division multiple access receiver

US6067292A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 30, 1997
Grant dateMay 23, 2000
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Expiry dateApr 30, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B2201/70709
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A Code-Division Multiple Access (CDMA) receiver removes the pilot signal from the received signal. The pilot signal is defined by its multipath parameters (amplitudes, phase shift and delays) and its signature sequence. Since this information is known at the user's receiver terminal (i.e., handset), the pilot signals of the interfering multipath components of the baseband received signal are detected and removed prior to demodulation of the desired multipath component. The pilot signal may be cancelled prior to or following the data accumulation stage. The pilot signal cancellation can be switched on and off depending on the detected path signal level.

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