摘要:
Methods and apparatus for receiving adjacent channel signals wherein adjacent channel interference effects are minimized through joint demodulation of the adjacent channel signals. A channel associated with each signal and each corresponding frequency band is estimated and used to form joint branch metrics for joint sequence estimation. In an exemplary embodiment, a baseband processor receives baseband samples corresponding to at least one carrier frequency, and then jointly demodulates at least two information streams corresponding to different carrier frequencies in dependence upon the received baseband samples. In another embodiment, a joint channel estimator receives at least two baseband sample streams, each stream corresponding to a different frequency band, and jointly estimates medium responses for each of at least two information signals which were transmitted in different frequency bands.
摘要:
Desired information is recovered from a communications signal that includes interference by processing the communications signal to produce a baseband signal and detecting a spreading sequence from the baseband signal. An estimate of an interfering signal component of the baseband signal associated with the detected spreading sequence is generated, and new version of the baseband signal is generated from a previous version of the baseband signal based on the generated estimate of the interfering signal component. The desired information is estimated from the new version of the baseband signal. The spreading sequence preferably is detected by resolving, e.g., descrambling, a version of the baseband signal into a plurality of signal components, respective ones of which are associated with respective propagation paths. The resolved plurality of signal components are correlated with a set of spreading sequences to generate respective sets of correlations for respective ones of the resolved signal components. The correlations are combined, preferably using maximal ratio combining (MRC) to generate a plurality of combined correlations, respective ones of which correspond to respective ones of the spreading sequences. The spreading sequence associated with the interfering signal component is detected from the generated combined correlations.