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公开(公告)号：US10284276B2
公开(公告)日：2019-05-07
申请号：US15390057
申请日：2016-12-23
Applicant: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
Inventor： Mohamed-Achraf Khsiba , Ghaya Rekaya Ben-Othman , Asma Mejri
IPC: H04B7/08 , H04B7/0413 , H04L25/03 , H04L1/06
Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a decoder (10) for decoding a signal received through a transmission channel in a communication system, the signal carrying information symbols selected from a given set of values and being associated with a signal vector, the transmission channel being represented by a channel matrix. The decoder comprises: a sub-block division unit (12) configured to divide the received signal vector into a set of sub-vectors in correspondence with a division of a matrix related to said channel matrix; at least one weighting coefficient calculation unit (14) configured to calculate a sub-block weighting coefficient for each sub-vector, at least one symbol estimation unit (11) for recursively determining estimated symbols representative of the transmitted symbols carried by the data signal from information stored in a stack. The at least one symbol estimation unit is configured to apply at least one iteration of a sequential decoding algorithm, the sequential decoding algorithm comprising iteratively filling a stack by expanding child nodes of a selected node of a decoding tree comprising a plurality of nodes, each node of the decoding tree corresponding to a candidate component of a symbol of at least a part of the received signal and each node being assigned an initial metric. The symbol estimation unit is further configured to calculate a modified metric for at least one node of the expanded child nodes from the metric associated with the at least one node and from the sub-block weighting coefficient calculated for the sub-vector to which the at least one node belongs, symbol estimation unit being configured to assign the modified metric to the at least one node.
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公开(公告)号：US10250360B2
公开(公告)日：2019-04-02
申请号：US15836162
申请日：2017-12-08
Applicant: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
Inventor： Asma Mejri , Ghaya Rekaya Ben-Othman , Mohammed-Achraf Khsiba
Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a decoder for decoding a signal received through a transmission channel in a communication system, said signal comprising a vector of information symbols, wherein the decoder comprises: a processing unit (307) configured to determine at least one candidate set of division parameters and to perform a division of said vector of information symbols into a set of sub-vectors in association with each candidate set of division parameters, each pair of sub-vectors being associated with a division metric; a selection unit (309) configured to select one of said candidate sets of division parameters according to a selection criterion depending on said division metric; and a decoding unit (311) configured to determine at least one estimate of each sub-vector associated with said selected set of division parameters by applying a symbol estimation algorithm, wherein the decoder is configured to determine at least one estimate of the vector of information symbols from said at least one estimate of each sub-vector of information symbols.
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公开(公告)号：US10200153B2
公开(公告)日：2019-02-05
申请号：US15355311
申请日：2016-11-18
Applicant: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
Inventor： Asma Mejri , Mohamed-Achraf Khsiba , Ghaya Rekaya Ben-Othman
Abstract: There is provided a decoder for sequentially decoding a data signal received through a transmission channel in a communication system, said data signal carrying transmitted symbols, said decoder comprising a symbol estimation unit (301) configured to determine estimated symbols representative of the transmitted symbols carried by the received signal from information stored in a stack, said symbol estimation unit (301) being configured to iteratively fill the stack by expanding child nodes of a selected node of a decoding tree comprising a plurality of nodes, each node of the decoding tree corresponding to a candidate component of a symbol of said data signal and each node being assigned a metric, the stack being filled at each iteration with a set of expanded child nodes and being ordered by increasing values of the metrics assigned to the nodes, the selected node for each iteration corresponding to the node being assigned the lowest metric in the stack, the decoder comprising a metric determination unit (302) configured to determine an initial metric for each child node of said set of expanded child nodes, wherein the decoder further comprises a modified metric calculation unit (303) configured to calculate a modified metric for at least one of the expanded child nodes from the metric associated with said expanded child node and a weighting coefficient, said weighting coefficient being a function of the level of said node in the decoding tree, the decoder assigning said modified metric to said at least one of the expanded child nodes.
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公开(公告)号：US10116326B2
公开(公告)日：2018-10-30
申请号：US15348247
申请日：2016-11-10
Applicant: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
Inventor： Mohamed-Achraf Khsiba , Ghaya Rekaya Ben-Othman , Asma Mejri
Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provides a decoder for decoding a signal received through a transmission channel in a communication system, said signal carrying information symbols selected from a given alphabet and being associated with a signal vector, said transmission channel being represented by a channel matrix, wherein said decoder comprises: a sub-block division unit (301) configured to divide the received signal vector into a set of sub-vectors in correspondence with a division of a matrix related to said channel matrix; a candidate set estimation unit (305) for recursively determining candidate estimates of sub-blocks of the transmitted signal corresponding to said sub-vectors, each estimate of a given sub-block being determined from at least one candidate estimate of the previously processed sub-blocks, wherein said candidate set estimation unit is configured to determine a set of candidate estimates for at least one sub-block of the transmitted signal by applying at least one iteration of a decoding algorithm using the estimates determined for the previously processed sub-blocks, the number of candidate estimates determined for said sub-block being strictly inferior to the cardinal of the alphabet and superior or equal to two, the decoder further comprising a signal estimation unit (306) for calculating an estimate of the transmitted signal from said candidate estimates determined for said sub-blocks.
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