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.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for compensation of noise in a received signal includes receiving a received signal comprised of a sum of a transmitted signal and a disturbance signal in a demodulator, summing the received signal and a compensation signal to produce a demodulation signal, determining a transmitted symbol based upon the demodulation signal, determining an error signal by calculating a difference between the demodulation signal and the determined transmitted symbol, and determining the compensation signal from the error signal using a model-based disturbance suppression control process. In at least one embodiment, the model-based disturbance suppression control process is a linear disturbance model control process.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus of an OFDM system that utilizes the synchronization channel, SCH, by the user equipment, UE, to obtain time synchronization information and to perform cell search. In order to perform the SCH detection, only a correlation between the known SCH signal and the received sequence is needed (201), hence the FFT is not involved in the synchronization step. Typically the SCH and pilot symbols are transmitted with a constant power which is the same for all base stations. Hence, based on the serving cell, SC, SCH and pilot symbols, the power relation between these signals is estimated (202, 203, 204) and the ratio applied when performing time synchronization to other cells i.e. correlation the received sequence with the SCH from that particular neighboring cell, to estimate the pilot signal strength for the neighboring cell (205, 206, 207).