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Uplink single carrier frequency division multiple access multiple-input multiple-output soft interference cancellation receiver

US8665693B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateAug 18, 2011
Grant dateMar 4, 2014
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Expiry dateJan 21, 2032

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B7/0413
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method are provided for Soft Interference Cancellation (SIC) in receiving Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) Multiple-Input Multiple Output (MIMO) signals. A receiver with Mr antennas accepts multicarrier signals transmitted simultaneously, with N overlapping carrier frequencies. The receiver removes a cyclic prefix (CP), and fast Fourier transforms (FFT) the multicarrier signal from each antenna, supplying Mr number of N-tone signals y. Using either parallel SIC (P-SIC) or successive SIC (S-SIC), interference is canceled in each of the Mr signals, and soft symbols are supplied for each of U layers. Interference is canceled using the P-SIC process by parallel processing the U layers in an i-th iteration, in response to feedback from an (i−1)th iteration. Alternatively, interference is canceled using the S-SIC process by sequentially processing the U layers in an i-th iteration, in the order of u0,u1, . . . , uU−1, using feedback generated from previously processed layers.

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