Apparatus and method for cancelling interferences between orthogonal coded signals in mobile communication system

• US 20090122929A1
• Filed: 06/03/2008
• Published: 05/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kong, Jun Jin, Yu, Donghun, Park, Sung Chung
• Granted Patent: US 8,036,326 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/346
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/71052 using decorrelation matrix
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0204 of multiple channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0224 using sounding signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0246 with factorisation

Abstract

Apparatuses and methods for cancelling interferences between signals are provided. The apparatuses includes: a receiving unit that receives an orthogonal coded signal from a transmitter and generates a received vector; a channel estimation unit that estimates a state of a wireless channel from the transmitter to the apparatus where the cancelling of the interference between signals is performed and generates a channel state matrix; a Q-R decomposition unit that performs Q-R decomposition with respect to the generated channel state matrix and generates a Q matrix and an R matrix, and generates a decision statistic vector based on the generated Q matrix and the received vector; and a signal determination unit that determines a received signal with interference from the orthogonal coded signal being decreased based on the generated decision statistics vector.

Claims

1. An apparatus for cancelling interferences between signals, the apparatus comprising:

a receiving unit that receives an orthogonal coded signal from a transmitter and generates a received vector;

a channel estimation unit that estimates a state of a wireless channel from the transmitter to the apparatus where the cancelling of the interference between signals is performed and generates a channel state matrix;

a Q-R decomposition unit that performs Q-R decomposition with respect to the generated channel state matrix and generates a Q matrix and an R matrix, and generates a decision statistic vector based on the generated Q matrix and the received vector; and

a signal determination unit that determines a received signal with interference from the orthogonal coded signal being decreased based on the generated decision statistics vector.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the orthogonal coded signal is a space-time block coded signal or a space-frequency block coded signal.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the signal determination unit determines an interference contaminated received signal which includes interference between a plurality of signals being transmitted from a plurality of transmission antennas of the transmitter based on the determined decision statistics vector, and determines the received signal with interference being decreased from among the plurality of signals transmitted from the plurality of transmission antennas of the transmitter based on the determined interference contaminated received signal.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the signal determination unit multiplies a matrix with diagonal elements of the R matrix being delted by the determined interference contaminated received signal and generates an interference vector between signals, performs subtraction operations with respect to the decision statistics vector and the generated interference vector between signals and determines the received signal.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the signal determination unit updates the interference vector between signals based on the determined received signal, performs a subtraction operation with respect to the decision statistics vector and the updated interference vector between signals and re-determines the received signal.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the signal determination unit determines the received signal based on Equation 25.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the channel estimation unit generates the channel state matrix based on a plurality of pilot signals being transmitted from each of the plurality of transmission antennas of the transmitter.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the Q-R decomposition unit multiplies a conjugate transpose matrix of the Q matrix by the received vector and generates the decision statistics vector.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the Q-R decomposition unit generates the Q-matrix and R-matrix using a modified Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization process.

10. A method for cancelling interferences between signals, the method comprising:

receiving an orthogonal coded signal from a transmitter and generating a received vector;

estimating a state of a wireless channel from the transmitter to the apparatus for cancelling interferences between signals and generating a channel state matrix;

performing Q-R decomposition with respect to the generated channel state matrix and generating a Q matrix and an R matrix;

generating a decision statistic vector based on the generated Q matrix and the received vector; and

determining a received signal with interference being decreased from the orthogonal coded signal based on the generated decision statistics vector.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the orthogonal coded signal is an orthogonal time-space block coded signal or an orthogonal frequency-space block coded signal.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the determining of the received signal with interference is decreased from the orthogonal coded signal based on the generated decision statistics vector comprises:

determining an interference contaminated received signal which includes interference between a plurality of signals being transmitted from a plurality of transmission antennas of the transmitter based on the determined decision statistics vector; and

determining the received signal with interference being decreased from among the plurality of signals being transmitted from the plurality of transmission antennas of the transmitter based on the determined interference contaminated received signal.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the determining of the received signal with interference being decreased between the plurality of signals being transmitted from the plurality of transmission antennas of the transmitter based on the determined interference contaminated received signal comprises:

multiplying a matrix whose diagonal elements of the R matrix are being cancelled by the determined interference contaminated received signal and generating an interference vector between signals; and

performing subtraction operations with respect to the decision statistics vector and the generated interference vector between signals and determining the received signal.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the determining of the received signal with interference being decreased between the plurality of signals being transmitted from the plurality of transmission antennas of the transmitter based on the determined interference contaminated received signal comprises:

updating the interference vector between signals based on the determined received signal, and performs a subtraction operation with respect to the decision statistics vector and the updated interference vector between signals and re-determines the received signal.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the determining of the received signal with interference being decreased between the plurality of signals being transmitted from the plurality of transmission antennas of the transmitter based on the determined interference contaminated received signal determines the received signal by,

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the generating of the channel state matrix generates the channel state matrix based on a plurality of pilot signals being transmitted from each of the plurality of transmission antennas of the transmitter.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the generating of the decision statistics vector based on the generated Q matrix and the received vector generates the decision statistics vector by multiplying a conjugate transpose matrix of the Q matrix by the received vector.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the generating of the Q and R matrixes generates the Q and R matrixes using a modified Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization process.

19. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for implementing the method of claim 10.