System and method for finger management in a rake receiver

Details System and method for finger management in a rake receiver System and method for finger management in a rake receiver

2002-07-30

2008-03-04

Corrielus, Jean B. (Department: 2611)

Pulse or digital communications

Receivers

Interference or noise reduction

C375S349000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07340017

ABSTRACT:
In a RAKE receiver capable of detecting and combining a plurality of multipath signals, a controller for managing the assignment of the plurality of multipath signals to fingers of the RAKE receiver. The controller determines a phase difference between a selected multipath signal and a first multipath signal assigned to a first finger of the RAKE receiver and does not assign the selected multipath signal to a second finger of the RAKE receiver unless the phase difference is greater than one-half chip. If the phase difference is less that one-half chip, the controller assigns the stronger of the selected multipath signal and the first multipath signal to the first finger of the RAKE receiver. If the finger power falls below a certain threshold, the finger internal states (viz. channel estimate and delay estimate) are maintained while the output of the finger is not processed. If the finger power exceeds the threshold anytime within a specified time interval, the normal activities of the finger are restored. If the power remains lower than the threshold for that time period, the finger is deactivated.

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