Channel code decoding for the CDMA forward link
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| Název: | Channel code decoding for the CDMA forward link |
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| Patent Number: | 6,996,385 |
| Datum vydání: | February 07, 2006 |
| Appl. No: | 10/260226 |
| Application Filed: | September 27, 2002 |
| Abstrakt: | Channel coding is used on the forward link of a CDMA cellular telephone network to allow the CDMA mobile channel decoder to perform error correction. On a wireless link, channel code performance is improved by providing the channel decoder with an estimate of the reliability of each received symbol. This reliability information is typically the ratio of desired signal energy to interference plus noise variance at the channel decoder input. This invention improves CDMA mobile channel decoder performance using a new technique for calculating more accurate estimates of the signal to interference plus noise ratio at the input of the mobile channel decoder. |
| Inventors: | Messier, Geoffrey G. (Calgary, CA); Krzymien, Witold A. (Edmonton, CA) |
| Assignees: | Telecommunications Research Laboratories (Edmonton, CA) |
| Claim: | 1. A method of communication, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a CDMA signal transmitted over a channel to a mobile receiver operating in a cell of a CDMA cellular communications system; estimating the energy of the received CDMA signal; estimating the forward channel impulse response of the channel; using the forward channel impulse response of the channel, estimating the variance of interference and noise affecting the CDMA signal, by separately finding the variance of in-cell channel interference and the variance of out-of-cell interference and noise; and decoding, at a channel decoder, the CDMA signal using the estimated energy of the received CDMA signal and the variance of the interference and noise affecting the CDMA signal. |
| Claim: | 2. The method of claim 1 in which the mobile receiver receives a CDMA signal incorporating multipath components and the mobile receiver processes the multipath components to produce an output. |
| Claim: | 3. The method of claim 2 in which the energy of the received CDMA signal is estimated at the output of the mobile receiver, the variance of the in-cell interference at the output of the mobile receiver is estimated using the variance of the in-cell interference at the input to the mobile receiver and multipath processing performed by the mobile receiver, and the variance of the out-of-cell interference and noise at the output of the mobile receiver is estimated using the variance of the out-of-cell interference and noise at the mobile receiver input and multipath processing performed by the mobile receiver. |
| Claim: | 4. The method of claim 3 in which estimates of the variances of the in-cell interference and out-of-cell interference plus thermal noise processes at the input to the mobile receiver are found from an auto-correlation of the received CDMA signal and the estimate of the forward channel impulse response. |
| Claim: | 5. The method of claim 1 in which the variance of the in-cell interference at the mobile receiver output is calculated by accounting for the processing performed by the mobile receiver on multipath components of the received signal and the partial interference cancellation provided by orthogonal spreading codes used in the CDMA cellular communications system. |
| Claim: | 6. The method of claim 1 in which the variance of out-of-cell interference plus thermal noise at the mobile receiver output is calculated by accounting for the processing performed by the mobile receiver on multipath components of the received signal. |
| Claim: | 7. Apparatus for decoding signals transmitted on a forward link channel of a CDMA cellular communications system, the apparatus comprising: a CDMA receiver having an input and an output; a channel de-interleaver connected to the output of the CDMA receiver and having a de-interleaver output; a channel estimator connected to receive signals appearing at the input to the CDMA receiver and being configured to provide an estimate of the channel impulse response of the forward link channel to the CDMA receiver; a SNIR estimator connected to receive signals including encoded symbols appearing at the input to the CDMA receiver and connected to the channel estimator for receiving an estimate of the channel impulse response, the SNIR estimator having as output an estimate of the signal to interference plus noise ratio of a signal received over the forward link channel by the CDMA receiver, wherein the SNIR estimator is configured to find an estimate of the signal to interference plus noise ratio by separately finding the variance of in-cell channel interference and the variance of out-of-cell interference and noise; and a channel decoder connected to the de-interleaver output and to the SNIR estimator for receiving an estimate of the signal to noise interference ratio of each received encoded symbol. |
| Claim: | 8. The apparatus of claim 7 in which the mobile receiver receives a CDMA signal incorporating multipath components and the mobile receiver processes the multipath components to produce an output. |
| Claim: | 9. The apparatus of claim 8 in which the SNIR estimator is configured to estimate the variance of the in-cell interference at the output of the mobile receiver using the variance of the in-cell interference at the input to the mobile receiver and multipath processing performed by the mobile, and the variance of the out-of-cell interference and noise at the output of the mobile receiver using the variance of the out-of-cell interference and noise at the mobile receiver input and multipath processing performed by the mobile receiver. |
| Claim: | 10. The apparatus of claim 7 in which the SNIR estimator is configured to find an estimate of the variances of the in-cell interference and out-of-cell interference plus thermal noise processes at the input to the mobile receiver from an auto-correlation of the received CDMA signal and the estimate of the forward channel impulse response. |
| Claim: | 11. A method of estimating the signal to noise plus interference ratio of a CDMA signal transmitted over a channel of a CDMA communications network and received at a receiver, the method comprising the steps of: a) estimating the energy of the received CDMA signal; b) estimating the channel impulse response of the channel; c) finding an estimate of the variance of the in-cell interference and out-of-cell interference plus thermal noise processes at the mobile receiver output using an auto-correlation of the received CDMA signal and an estimate of the channel impulse response; and d) calculating the signal to noise interference ratio as the quotient of (1) the estimated energy of the received signal divided by (2) the sum of the variances found in step c). |
| Claim: | 12. The method of claim 11 in which finding an estimate of the variance of the in-cell interference and out-of-cell interference plus thermal noise processes at the mobile receiver output takes into account multipath processing of the received signal and the orthogonality of spreading codes used in the CDMA communications network. |
| Claim: | 13. The method of claim 12 in which the signal to noise interference ratio found in step d) is used in further processing of the received signal. |
| Claim: | 14. The method of claim 13 in which the further processing of the received signal comprises decoding the received signal. |
| Claim: | 15. The method of claim 13 in which the further processing of the received signal comprises generating forward link power commands. |
| Current U.S. Class: | 4552/263 |
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| Assistant Examiner: | Nguyen, Thuan T |
| Primary Examiner: | Vo, Nguyen T. |
| Attorney, Agent or Firm: | Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness PLLC |
| Přístupové číslo: | edspgr.06996385 |
| Databáze: | USPTO Patent Grants |
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