Benign interference suppression for received signal quality estimation
US7773950B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 16, 2004 |
| Grant date | Aug 10, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 28, 2028 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L1/0026
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A receiver circuit suppresses effects of “benign” impairment from the calculation of received signal quality estimates, such that the estimate depends primarily on the effects of non-benign impairment. For example, a received signal may be subject to same-cell and other-cell interference plus noise, which is generally modeled using a Gaussian distribution, and also may be due to certain forms of self-interference, such as quadrature phase interference arising from imperfect derotation of the pilot samples used to generate channel estimates for the received signal. Such interference generally takes on a distribution defined by the pilot signal modulation, e.g., a binomial distribution for binary phase shift keying modulation. Interference arising from such sources is relatively “benign” as compared to Gaussian interference and thus should be suppressed or otherwise discounted in signal quality calculations. Suppression may be based on subtracting benign impairment correlation estimates from total impairment correlation estimates, or on filtering the benign impairment in channel estimation.
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