Pulse or digital communications – Systems using alternating or pulsating current – Plural channels for transmission of a single pulse train
Patent
1993-01-06
1995-05-09
Chin, Stephen
Pulse or digital communications
Systems using alternating or pulsating current
Plural channels for transmission of a single pulse train
375285, 375346, 375347, 375350, H04L 102, H04L 2508, H04B 110, H04B 1500
Patent
active
054147344
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for compensating fading and interference in a radio signal. A plurality of pilot symbols are appended to a plurality of data symbols to form successive frames that are modulated at a transmitter. The transmitted modulated signal is subject to loss of data due to simple fading and multi-path and simulcast interference. The received signals are demodulated by a receiver and processed to provide a data signal comprising the data symbols and a pilot signal comprising the pilot symbols. The data signal is delayed for sufficient time to enable channel impulse response estimates to be made of successive blocks of pilot symbols, preferably using pilot symbol blocks that both precede and follow the data symbols in the frame being processed. The channel impulse response estimates for blocks of pilot symbols are buffered and used by an interpolator to determine an interpolated channel impulse response estimate for each data symbol as a function of both the pilot symbols and of predefined channel characteristics. The interpolated channel impulse response estimates are applied to successive data symbols in the delayed data signal, enabling the data to be decoded, compensating for fading and interference. Interpolation using predefined channel characteristics based on worst case conditions substantially improves the bit error rate (BER) for the data recovered, compared to the prior art.
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Ho Paul K.-M.
Marchetto Robert F.
Stewart Todd A.
Bocure Tesfaldet
Chin Stephen
Glenayre Electronics, Inc.
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