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Biased-corrected rake receiver for direct sequence spread spectrum waveform

US6614836B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJan 28, 2000
Grant dateSep 2, 2003
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Expiry dateJan 28, 2020

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B1/7093
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The performance of a RAKE receiver for indoor multipath WLAN applications on direct sequence spread spectrum signals having relatively short codeword lengths comprises a channel-matched filter and codeword correlator front end, plus a signal combiner to which the codeword correlation component is applied. The signal combiner is supplied with a bias-corrected input calculated by a distorted codeword signature (power) generator, which is operative to generate and store a set of N codeword power correction values. The signal combiner combines correction values into the codeword correlation for each potentially transmitted codeword Sk. This serves to correct each correlation codeword metric by a de-biasing power component |Sk|2 for the unequal multipath-based distortions of the codeword energies. The output of the signal combiner is coupled to a peak detector, which selects a minimum distance-based ‘de-biased’ output as the transmitted codeword.

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