Pulse or digital communications – Spread spectrum – Direct sequence
Reexamination Certificate
2005-06-22
2009-02-03
Corrielus, Jean B (Department: 2611)
Pulse or digital communications
Spread spectrum
Direct sequence
C375S142000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07486716
ABSTRACT:
A wireless communication receiver obtains improved performance under certain fast fading conditions by basing one or more received signal processing operations on pre-despreading chip sample correlations rather than on post-despreading noise correlations, but preserves soft scaling information by determining one or more scaling factors that relate the chip sample correlations to the noise correlations. By way of non-limiting examples, a Generalized RAKE receiver circuit may base combining weight generation on chip sample correlations rather than on post-despreading pilot symbol noise correlations, but scale the combining weights as a function of the one or more scaling factors, or, equivalently, scale the combined values generated from the combining weights. Similar scaling may be performed with respect to chip equalization filter combining weights in a chip equalization receiver circuit. Further, Signal-to-Interference Ratio (SIR) estimation may be improved in terms of fast fading responsiveness by using chip sample correlations, while preserving the proper scaling.
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Bottomley Gregory E.
Fulghum Tracy L.
Coats & Bennett P.L.L.C.
Corrielus Jean B
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
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