Abstract:
A method and apparatus for signal combining within a communication system is provided herein. The output of RAKE fingers is combined via a chip combiner. The combined chip stream can be despread with the appropriate Walsh code (defining a particular channel). The resulting symbol stream can then be deinterleaved and decoded.
Abstract:
A long code scrambler has been provided to scramble the data bits prior to QAM mapping. Different data rates are accommodated by using different long code m-tuples sampled at the modulation symbol rate, where m equals 2, 4 or 6 for 4, 16 or 64 QAM, respectively. In order to support 1XEV-DV users employing multiple Walsh code channels, a long code 6-tuple sample is permutated, to further randomize the QAM symbols. As appropriate for the modulation order, 2, 4 or 6 bits of the permutated 6-tuple are applied to the data sequence. That is, in addition to randomizing the modulation symbols for a given code channel, each code channel will likely have unique QAM symbols at any given symbol time.
Abstract:
A receiving communication device synchronizes to a timing reference of a transmitting communication device based on a determined timing error. The receiving communication device determines the timing error by processing a synchronization signal via a first stage filtering and interpolation process that includes predetermined coefficients and a second stage interpolation process that includes a minimal number of dynamically determined coefficients. By dividing the process into a predetermined coefficient stage and a dynamically determined coefficient stage, the receiving communication device is able to make timing adjustments in a more efficient manner, that is, at a lesser processor loading, than a communication device in which all filtering and interpolation coefficients are dynamically determined. In addition, by including a second order timing recovery loop, the receiving communication device is able to quickly and precisely respond to drifting of a timing reference differential between itself and the transmitting communication device.