Abstract:
A method of controlling a mobile communications device receiver, which includes: activating the receiver, receiving a voice signal divided into a plurality of voice time intervals, detecting a silent voice time interval from content of the received voice signal, and deactivating the receiver during at least a portion of the silent voice time interval. In addition, the method may also include: receiving a signaling signal divided into a plurality of signaling time intervals, detecting an empty signaling time interval from the plurality of signaling time intervals, and deactivating the receiver during at least a portion of the empty signaling time interval.
Abstract:
A method (200) for mitigating interference includes: receiving (201) a first signal (y1) comprising a first plurality of multipath transmissions from at least one radio cell at a first antenna port (A) and a second signal (y2) comprising a second plurality of multipath transmissions from the at least one radio cell at a second antenna port (B); generating (202) a first spatial component (h1A) of a first channel coefficient (h1) based on the first signal (y1) and a second spatial component (h1B) of the first channel coefficient (h1) based on the second signal (y2); generating (203) a covariance measure (Ry) based on the first signal (y1) and the second signal (y2); and generating (204) a first spatial component (w1A) of a first weight (w1) for interference mitigation based on the covariance measure (Ry), the first and second spatial components (h1A, h1B) of the first channel coefficient (h1) and a scalar correction value (C).
Abstract:
A communication terminal is described comprising a radio frequency receiver configured to receive a signal comprising signal components transmitted via different communication channels, each modulated based on a common modulation symbol shared by the plurality of communication channels, an equalizer for each communication channel configured to equalize the signal received based on respective one or more channel parameters, a demodulator for each communication channel configured to calculate probability information information bits to be equal to a particular binary value, a combiner configured to combine the probability information calculated for the plurality of communication channels and a decoder configured to generate reconstructed useful data based on the combined probability information.
Abstract:
An equalizer includes: a channel estimator configured to generate a set of time-domain channel coefficients based on a receive signal; a frequency-domain transformer configured to generate a set of frequency-domain channel coefficients based on a frequency transform of the set of time-domain channel coefficients; an equalizer coefficient generator configured to generate a set of frequency-domain equalizer coefficients based on the set of frequency-domain channel coefficients; a time-domain transformer configured to generate a set of time-domain equalizer coefficients based on a time transform of the set of frequency-domain equalizer coefficients; and a filter configured to filter the receive signal based on a filter function that is based on the set of time-domain equalizer coefficients.
Abstract:
A method of controlling a mobile communications device receiver, which includes: activating the receiver, receiving a voice signal divided into a plurality of voice time intervals, detecting a silent voice time interval from content of the received voice signal, and deactivating the receiver during at least a portion of the silent voice time interval. In addition, the method may also include: receiving a signaling signal divided into a plurality of signaling time intervals, detecting an empty signaling time interval from the plurality of signaling time intervals, and deactivating the receiver during at least a portion of the empty signaling time interval.
Abstract:
A method (200) of bias cancellation for a radio channel sequence includes: receiving (201) a radio signal, the radio signal comprising a radio channel sequence coded by a first signature, the first signature belonging to a set of orthogonal signatures; decoding (202) the radio channel sequence based on the first signature to generate a decoded radio channel sequence; decoding (203) the radio channel sequence based on a second signature, wherein the second signature is orthogonal to the signatures of the set of orthogonal signatures, to generate a bias of the radio channel sequence; and canceling (204) the bias of the radio channel sequence from the decoded radio channel sequence.
Abstract:
A method (200) of bias cancellation for a radio channel sequence includes: receiving (201) a radio signal, the radio signal comprising a radio channel sequence coded by a first signature, the first signature belonging to a set of orthogonal signatures; decoding (202) the radio channel sequence based on the first signature to generate a decoded radio channel sequence; decoding (203) the radio channel sequence based on a second signature, wherein the second signature is orthogonal to the signatures of the set of orthogonal signatures, to generate a bias of the radio channel sequence; and canceling (204) the bias of the radio channel sequence from the decoded radio channel sequence.