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Processing data in a digital communications system

US8009777B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 15, 2007
Grant dateAug 30, 2011
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Expiry dateJul 15, 2029

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L1/0048
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method of processing a signal in a wireless digital communications system, wherein a source of disturbance affects differently at least first and second portions of a received signal carrying user data and/or control data, the method comprising: identifying the second portion of the received signal, most affected by the source of disturbance; generating a first estimate of the disturbance (PI) for received samples in the first, less affected portion of the received signal; generating a second estimate of the disturbance (PI(SCH)) for received samples in the second portion of the received signal; and using the first and second disturbance estimates to generate reliability information for the data bits corresponding to the received signal samples, for use in a decoding process to estimate the transmitted data bits.

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