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Joint time/frequency processing for wireless receivers

US8798176B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJul 10, 2009
Grant dateAug 5, 2014
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Expiry dateApr 16, 2032

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L25/03235
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Channel estimation and/or equalization processing is performed in a wireless receiver in two stages. The first stage involves pre-filtering in the frequency domain to compact a grid-based representation of the net channel. The second stage involves implementing reduced-complexity time domain channel estimation and/or equalization. According to one embodiment, a received signal transmitted over a net channel is processed by pre-filtering the received signal in the frequency domain. The frequency domain pre-filtering compacts an N-tap effective grid-based representation of the net channel into a K-tap compacted grid-based representation of the net channel where K<N. The pre-filtered received signal is equalized in the time domain based on the K-tap compacted grid-based representation of the net channel generated by pre-filtering the received signal in the frequency domain.

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