RAKE receiver
US6215814A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 15, 2000 |
| Grant date | Apr 10, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 15, 2020 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04B2201/709727
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The invention relates to a RAKE receiver of a CDMA system using IRC, the receiver receiving a radio signal by using at least two antenna branches. In accordance with the invention a RAKE finger comprises: a weighting coefficient part for forming weighting coefficients maximizing the Signal-to-Interference-and-Noise Ratio for each antenna branch; a multiplier for multiplying a pilot part, despread by a despreader in each antenna branch, by a weighting coefficient; a multiplier for multiplying a data part, despread by a despreader in each antenna branch, by a weighting coefficient; an antenna branch summer for combining the despread pilot parts, received via the separate antenna branches and multiplied by the weighting coefficient, to one pilot signal; an antenna branch summer for combining the despread data parts, received via the separate antenna branches and multiplied by the weighting coefficient, to one data signal. In addition, the receiver comprises a RAKE finger summer for combining the data signals of the RAKE fingers operating by different delays to a sum data signal representing the received bits.
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