Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a receiver and a method for receiving and processing a series of symbols transmitted in a digital communication system utilizing soft pilot symbols.SOLUTION: Since the remaining symbols in a series are modulated by a high-order modulation method of 16QAM, 64QAM, or the like, and soft pilot symbols are modulated by a lower-order modulation method of BPSK, QPSK, or the like, a soft pilot symbol set is transmitted with reliability higher than that of the remaining symbols in a series. A modulation system and a position (time/frequency/code) of the soft pilot symbol set are known for a receiver, and the receiver demodulates the soft pilot symbol at first, and uses as a known symbol thus estimating parameters of a received wireless signal. The soft pilot carries data furthermore. In addition, the soft pilot is especially useful for establishing an amplitude reference essential for demodulation of higher-order modulation symbols.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for processing a composite communication signal comprising two or more received signals of interest are disclosed. An interference-suppressing receiver, which may comprise a G-Rake receiver or a linear chip equalizer, utilizes a square-root covariance matrix in processing received signals, where the square-root covariance matrix represents impairment covariance or data covariance for the composite communication signal. In an exemplary method, a receiver detects symbols, corresponding to a signal of interest, from the composite communication signal, using processing weights calculated from a square-root covariance matrix and a net channel response for the signal of interest. The method further comprises calculating a reconstructed version of the signal of interest from the detected first symbols, generating an updated communication signal by subtracting the reconstructed version of the first signal of interest from the composite communication signal, and updating the square-root covariance matrix to obtain an updated square-root covariance matrix.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To dissolve the complexity of inner/outer loop electric power control in using a fractional dedicated physical channel (F-DPCH).SOLUTION: Based on a signal strength or quality of a standard channel signal, and an estimate value of a gain factor about a control channel signal and the standard channel signal, an electric power control feedback of the control channel signal received together with the standard channel signal is generated. As a non-restrictive example shown in a context of extensive belt CDMA (WCDMA (R)), the standard channel signal includes a common pilot channel (CPICH) signal, and the control channel signal includes an F-DPCH signal to be transmitted by an electric power gain (unknown) to the CPICH signal.
Abstract:
A receiver circuit provides improved noise estimation processing by at least partially removing receiver frequency error bias. An initial noise estimate is compensated using an error term based on the observed receiver frequency error, and the resulting compensated noise estimate can be used to improve other signal processing in the receiver. For example, the receiver may use compensated noise estimates to generate signal quality estimates, e.g., Signal-to-Interference (SIR) estimates, having improved accuracy. Additionally, or alternatively, the receiver may use the compensated noise estimates to generate RAKE combining weights having improved noise suppression characteristics. In an exemplary embodiment, the initial noise estimate is a noise correlation matrix generated from a received reference signal, e.g., pilot symbols, and the error term is an error matrix directly generated using the observed receiver frequency error and channel estimates taken from the reference signal.