Fast space-time decoding using soft demapping with table look-up
US7349496B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 27, 2003 |
| Grant date | Mar 25, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 15, 2025 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2025/03426
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
From potential symbol combinations transmitted from a transmitter, Euclidean distances between the received signals and the symbol vectors are determined in light of the corresponding channel responses and stored in a Euclidean distance table, from which the smallest Euclidean distance is selected as a hard decision. The hard decision is used to find a bit vector corresponding to the estimated symbol vector associated with the hard decision. For each bit in the bit vector, a reduced Euclidean distance table is created to include only Euclidean distances associated with a competing bit associated with the hard decision. The minimum Euclidean distance from each reduced Euclidean distance table becomes a soft demapping decision for a corresponding bit. Log likelihood ratios for each bit are determined by the difference between the hard decision and respective soft demapping decisions. The differences are provided to a channel decoder to recover the originally transmitted bits.
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