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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To filter noisy estimates to reduce estimation errors.SOLUTION: Input samples y(k) from a receiver are sent to a channel estimator 310 and to a data finite impulse response (FIR) filter 360. Within the channel estimator 310, an initial channel estimator 320 derives a channel impulse response estimate (CIRE) for a wireless channel between a base station and a wireless device; a channel IIR filter 330 is updated; and a computation unit 350 derives equalizer coefficients. Filtering is performed by the FIR filter 360 using data of these coefficients.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rake receiver finger assignor configured to assign a rake receiver finger to one time offset of identified signal path time offsets in accordance with the concentration of identified signal paths from a transmitter to a rake receiver.SOLUTION: The number of identified signal paths having time offsets within a time window are observed to determine the concentration of signal paths identified by a path searcher. If the number of the identified signal paths indicates a concentrated distribution of signal paths such as during a fat path condition, at least one rake receiver is assigned to one time offset between the two identified signal paths.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide efficient searchers to reduce the integrated circuit area and the power consumption in a step2 search of the W-CDMA(R) three-step search method.SOLUTION: In a mobile terminal of a CDMA system, I and Q signals received by an RF downconverter are correlated by a first correlator with a primary synchronization code on a primary synchronization channel, and correlated by a second correlator 412 with a secondary synchronization code on a secondary synchronization channel. An energy calculator 405 and a maximum energy detector 406 use the I and Q signals correlated with both the primary and secondary synchronization channels, to detect the most probable scrambling code group of secondary synchronization codes.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize power consumption by a wireless communications device (WCD) which receives a broadcast-paging message in addition to an existing call-paging message.SOLUTION: Quickly responsive to wakeup from sleep, the WCD detects received signal quality. The WCD also receives: scheduled network transmission of a call-paging message; and a number of instances (at least one) of a repeating network transmitted broadcast-paging message that occurs multiple times for each scheduled transmission of the call-paging message. This number varies inversely proportionally with the detected signal quality.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus, system, and method for managing transmission power in a wireless communication system. SOLUTION: An apparatus, system, and method efficiently manage transmission power in user equipment (UE) device by maintaining and applying an authorized power level to determine a transmission power level after a power limited transmission and before a new power control command is received. The UE device maintains the authorized power level by monitoring and adjusting the authorized power level based on received power control commands. After a power limited transmission where the maximum power level is less than the authorized power level, the UE device determines the transmission power level for the next transmission based on the authorized power level. Accordingly, after the power limiting situation has ceased, the UE device transmits at the optimum power level eliminating the inefficiencies of transmitting at a lower than authorized power before the next power control command is received. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To filter noisy estimates to reduce estimation errors.SOLUTION: A sequence of input values (e.g., for an initial channel impulse response estimate (CIRE)) is filtered with an infinite impulse response (IIR) filter having at least one coefficient to obtain a sequence of output values (e.g., for a filtered CIRE). The coefficient(s) are updated based on the sequence of input values with an adaptive filter, a bank of prediction filters, or a normalized variation technique. To update the coefficient(s) with the adaptive filter, a sequence of predicted values is derived based on the sequence of input values. Prediction errors between the sequence of predicted values and the sequence of input values are determined and filtered to obtain filtered prediction errors. The coefficient(s) of the IIR filter are then updated based on the prediction errors and the filtered prediction errors.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for deriving a channel impulse response estimate (CIRE) with improved quality.SOLUTION: A first CIRE with multiple channel taps is obtained based on (1) an initial CIRE derived from a received pilot or (2) a filtered CIRE derived from the initial CIRE. The channel taps in the first CIRE are scaled with multiple scaling factors to obtain a second CIRE. For point-wise LMMSE scaling, the energy of each channel tap is estimated. The noise energy for the channel taps is also estimated, e.g., based on energies of channel taps on one or both edges of the first CIRE. Each channel tap is scaled based on a scaling factor determined by the energy of that channel tap and the noise energy.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide technologies with which a wireless communication device (WCD) can efficiently receive call/broadcast paging messages from base stations. SOLUTION: Responsive to wake-up (502) from sleep, a WCD detects (509) received signal quality. The WCD also receives (510) scheduled network transmission of a call-paging message and the number of instances of a repeating network transmitted broadcast-paging message that occurs multiple times for each scheduled transmission of the call-paging message. This number varies inversely with the signal quality. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly mitigate interference from the SCH and other similar common channels in order to achieve optimal network performance.SOLUTION: A mobile station configured to perform common channel cancellation includes: a parameter estimation unit configured to estimate (702) parameters for generating a common channel error; a common channel generation unit configured to generate (704) the common channel error on the basis of the estimated parameters; and an adder configured to subtract (706) the common channel error from received data samples.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a method and an apparatus for reducing latency for the recovery of a communication error.SOLUTION: One message is transmitted as two message portions of the first message portion transmitted at a first power level and the second message portion transmitted at a second lower power level. The first power level is selected to provide a prescribed probability that the first message portion may be successfully received. Alternatively, the first and second message portions are transmitted so that the first message portion has larger energy per bit than that of the second message portion. At a first time, the first message portion is received. At a second time where the second time has a known relationship with the first time, a signal is received from which the second message portion is not reliably obtained. A receiving device recognizes that the second message portion has not properly received and requests the re-transmission of at least the second message portion.