Abstract:
Channel response and impairment correlation estimates are iteratively determined. According to one embodiment of performing channel estimation for use in received signal processing, a channel response estimate is calculated based on an initial impairment correlations estimate and a measured channel response derived from a received signal. A revised impairment correlations estimate is calculated using a parametric approach based on the channel response estimate and the channel response estimate is recalculated based on the revised impairment correlations estimate. According to one embodiment of a wireless communication device, the device comprises a parameter estimation unit configured to iteratively calculate a medium channel response estimate based on a parametric impairment correlations estimate and a measured net channel response derived from a received signal. The wireless communication device also comprises circuitry configured to control how many times the parameter estimation unit calculates the medium channel response estimate.
Abstract:
In a receive node (230) of a wireless network (100), an iterative multi-user multi-stage interference cancellation receiver (400, 800, 1100) is used. After each stage of interference cancellation, interference characteristics change. An adaptive strategy is used in which after each stage of interference cancellation, impairment covariance is parametrically updated and combining weights of the receiver (400, 800, 1100) are adapted to reflect the updated impairment covariance.
Abstract:
A frequency offset is estimated between at least one frequency of at least one transmitter and a local reference frequency of a receiver. Received signals are processed using the local frequency reference oscillator to obtain representative complex numerical samples which are correlated with shifts of a locally generated despreading code to produce a number of complex channel estimates, each corresponding to a different delayed ray of the multipath propagation channel. A frequency error estimate is computed for each ray based on successive values of a respective one of the channel estimates. A weighted summation is formed of the frequency error estimate to provide a relative frequency error estimate to control the local frequency reference.
Abstract:
Channel response and impairment correlation estimates are iteratively determined. According to one embodiment of performing channel estimation for use in received signal processing, a channel response estimate is calculated based on an initial impairment correlations estimate and a measured channel response derived from a received signal. A revised impairment correlations estimate is calculated using a parametric approach based on the channel response estimate and the channel response estimate is recalculated based on the revised impairment correlations estimate. According to one embodiment of a wireless communication device, the device comprises a parameter estimation unit configured to iteratively calculate a medium channel response estimate based on a parametric impairment correlations estimate and a measured net channel response derived from a received signal. The wireless communication device also comprises circuitry configured to control how many times the parameter estimation unit calculates the medium channel response estimate.
Abstract:
A CDMA communication system uses a RAKE receiver, a code correlator and a multi-code joint detector to jointly detect symbols in two or more received signals contained within a composite signal. The RAKE receiver separates the composite signal into two or more RAKE output signals by despreading the composite signal using selected spreading codes. The multi-code joint detector jointly detects the symbols in the received signals using the RAKE receiver output signals, cross-correlations between the spreading codes generated by the code correlator, and RAKE combining weights based on a noise covariance matrix. The multi-code joint detector also includes a trellis that represents possible states and state transitions and a branch metric calculator for calculating branch metrics associated with the state transitions based on the RAKE receiver output signals and the cross-correlations between the spreading codes.
Abstract:
A method and corresponding circuit for determining a final result for a desired series of multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations are based on counting the occurrence of products in the desired series of MAC operations, multiplying the counts by their corresponding products to obtain partial sums, and adding the partial sums to obtain the final result. MAC processing as taught herein can be applied to a wide range of applications, such as received signal processing in wireless communication for computationally efficient (and high-rate) generation of interference correlation estimates and/or equalization filter values for a received communication signal.
Abstract:
A receiver based on a RAKE receiver architecture includes a logic circuit configured to assign one or more RAKE fingers to a finger placement grid that is independent from a searcher delay grid used by the receiver's searcher in generating multipath delay profiles for received signals. The logic circuit may use the multipath delay profile to "tune" the finger placement grid relative to the searcher delay grid but the delay resolution of the finger placement grid is independent of the searcher delay grid. This independence permits, for example, setting the finger placement grid to a delay resolution based on a Nyquist criterion independently from the delay resolution used by the searcher. The receiver may use two or more finger placement grids, may operate in a mixed mode where fingers are assigned on- and off-grid, and may operate selectively in grid or non-grid modes.
Abstract:
Code division multiple access signals received through at least one multipath propagation channel are processed to produce at least one relative frequency error estimate. This involves receiving and processing the signals using a local frequency reference oscillator to obtain representative complex numerical samples for processing. The complex numerical samples are correlated with shifts of a locally generated despreading code and a number of complex channel estimates are produced, each corresponding to a different delayed ray of the at least one multipath propagation channel. A frequency error estimate is computed for each ray based on successive values of a respective one of the channel estimates, and a weighted summation of the frequency error estimates is performed to provide at least one relative frequency error estimate.