Patent · US Expired

Method for estimating the bit error rate in a radio receiver and corresponding radio receiver

US6954507B2 · kind B2 · utility

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12Claims

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Assignee

Infineon Technologies AG · DE

Inventors

Peter Bohnhoff · Munich, DE
Ralf Hartmann · Baldham, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 11, 2002
Grant date	Oct 11, 2005
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 13, 2023

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L1/203
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a radio receiver, an equalizer generates reliability information in the form of soft decision information indicating probabilities that a data symbol received by the radio receiver is based on a specific transmitted value. A bit error rate estimator obtains bit error rate information regarding the bit error rate of the received signal, corresponding to the received data symbols, by evaluating the reliability information.

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