Receiver for wireless telecommunication stations and method
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1. A receiver for processing communication signals, which includes a RAKE receiver having up to a predetermined number of RAKE fingers, for assigning and combining a plurality of different signal paths of received communication signals comprising:
- a RAKE locator which determines signal paths based on windows defined by groups of consecutive signal samples in which samples within a window exceed a first power threshold and designates up to said predetermined number of such windows as candidate windows based on relative power of the samples within the determined windows;
window search circuitry which analyzes candidate windows to determine if the power of samples of the candidate windows exceeds a second threshold and designates a Fat finger candidate window when at least one of the candidate windows has a selected number of candidate samples which exceed said second threshold;
a RAKE finger allocator which assigns candidate windows for processing by either a first type of RAKE finger or a different second type of Fat RAKE finger such that candidate windows which are not designated as a Fat finger candidate window are each assigned to a different RAKE finger of said first type.
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to an improved telecommunication receiver for receiving wireless multi-path communication signals. A novel RAKE receiver and a time diverse integration system for the calculation of the relative power of received signal samples are provided. Preferably, the receiver is embodied in a UE or base station of a CDMA wireless telecommunication system, such as a 3GPP system.
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1. A receiver for processing communication signals, which includes a RAKE receiver having up to a predetermined number of RAKE fingers, for assigning and combining a plurality of different signal paths of received communication signals comprising:
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a RAKE locator which determines signal paths based on windows defined by groups of consecutive signal samples in which samples within a window exceed a first power threshold and designates up to said predetermined number of such windows as candidate windows based on relative power of the samples within the determined windows;
window search circuitry which analyzes candidate windows to determine if the power of samples of the candidate windows exceeds a second threshold and designates a Fat finger candidate window when at least one of the candidate windows has a selected number of candidate samples which exceed said second threshold;
a RAKE finger allocator which assigns candidate windows for processing by either a first type of RAKE finger or a different second type of Fat RAKE finger such that candidate windows which are not designated as a Fat finger candidate window are each assigned to a different RAKE finger of said first type. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 21, 22, 23)
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11. A method for processing communication signals using a RAKE receiver having up to a predetermined number RAKE fingers which combines a plurality of different signal paths of received communication signals comprising:
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determining signal paths based on windows defined by groups of consecutive signal samples in which samples within a window exceed a first power threshold;
designating up to said predetermined number of such windows as candidate windows based on relative power of the samples within the determined windows;
analyzing candidate windows to determine if the power of samples of the candidate windows exceeds a second threshold;
designating a Fat finger candidate window when at least one of the candidate windows has a second predetermined number of candidate samples which exceed said second threshold;
assigning candidate windows for processing by either a first type of RAKE finger or a different second type of Fat RAKE finger such that candidate windows which are not designated as a Fat finger candidate window are each assigned to a different RAKE finger of said first type. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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