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System and method for measuring channel quality information

US6108374A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 25, 1997
Grant dateAug 22, 2000
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Expiry dateAug 25, 2017

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W72/54
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method to measure channel quality in terms of signal to noise ratio for the transmission of coded signals over fading channels. A Viterbi decoder metric for the Maximum Likelihood path is used as a channel quality measure. This Euclidean distance metric is filtered in order to smooth out short term variations. The filtered or averaged metric is a reliable channel quality measure which remains consistent across different coded modulation schemes and at different mobile speeds. The filtered metric is mapped to the signal to noise ratio per symbol using a threshold based scheme. Use of this implicit signal to noise ratio estimate is used for the mobile assisted handoff and data rate adaptation in the transmitter.

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