SIGNAL BLANKING FOR IMPROVED FREQUENCY DOMAIN CHANNEL ESTIMATION
First Claim
1. A method for estimating a feedback channel for a wireless repeater in a wireless communication system, the wireless repeater having a first antenna and a second antenna to receive a receive signal and transmit an amplified signal, the receive signal being a sum of a remote signal to be repeated and a feedback signal resulting from the feedback channel between the first and second antenna of the wireless repeater, the method comprising:
- estimating the feedback channel between the first antenna and the second antenna using frequency domain channel estimation and using a signal indicative of the amplified signal as a pilot signal;
grouping samples of the pilot signal into blocks of N samples, N being the size of the fast Fourier transform (FFT) operation performed for the frequency domain channel estimation;
blanking K samples of the pilot signal in each block of N samples, K being much less than N; and
generating a feedback channel estimate using blocks of N samples of the pilot signal, each block of N samples including K blanked samples, and blocks of N samples of the receive signal.
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Abstract
A wireless repeater includes a channel estimation block to estimate a feedback channel between the antennas of the repeater using frequency domain channel estimation. The repeater includes a pilot signal blanking circuit to blank out a selected number of samples of the pilot signal to improve the accuracy of the channel estimation. In another embodiment, the repeater replaces T samples of the pilot signal with a cyclic prefix.
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27 Claims
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1. A method for estimating a feedback channel for a wireless repeater in a wireless communication system, the wireless repeater having a first antenna and a second antenna to receive a receive signal and transmit an amplified signal, the receive signal being a sum of a remote signal to be repeated and a feedback signal resulting from the feedback channel between the first and second antenna of the wireless repeater, the method comprising:
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estimating the feedback channel between the first antenna and the second antenna using frequency domain channel estimation and using a signal indicative of the amplified signal as a pilot signal; grouping samples of the pilot signal into blocks of N samples, N being the size of the fast Fourier transform (FFT) operation performed for the frequency domain channel estimation; blanking K samples of the pilot signal in each block of N samples, K being much less than N; and generating a feedback channel estimate using blocks of N samples of the pilot signal, each block of N samples including K blanked samples, and blocks of N samples of the receive signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A wireless repeater having a first antenna and a second antenna to receive a receive signal and transmit an amplified signal, the receive signal being a sum of a remote signal to be repeated and a feedback signal resulting from a feedback channel between the first antenna and the second antenna, the repeater comprising:
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receive circuitry configured to receive the receive signal from one of the first antenna and the second antenna; an echo canceller configured to access a feedback signal estimate, and to cancel the feedback signal estimate from the receive signal; a delay element configured to introduce a first delay before or after the echo canceller; and transmit circuitry configured to amplify the delayed echo cancelled signal to generate the amplified signal to be transmitted, wherein the echo canceller comprises; a channel estimation block configured to estimate the feedback channel using frequency domain channel estimation and using a signal indicative of the amplified signal as a pilot signal, the frequency domain channel estimation operative to perform a fast Fourier transform (FFT) on blocks of N samples of the pilot signal, N being the size of the FFT operation; and a pilot signal blanking circuit configured to blank K samples of the pilot signal in each block of N samples, K being much less than N, wherein the channel estimation block is configured to generate a feedback channel estimate using blocks of N samples of the pilot signal, each block of N samples including K blanked samples, and blocks of N samples of the receive signal, the channel estimation block further generates the feedback signal estimate based on the feedback channel estimate. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A wireless repeater having a first antenna and a second antenna to receive a receive signal and transmit an amplified signal, the receive signal being a sum of a remote signal to be repeated and a feedback signal resulting from a feedback channel between the first antenna and the second antenna, the repeater comprising:
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means for receiving the receive signal from one of the first antenna and the second antenna; means for cancelling a feedback signal estimate from the input signal; means for introducing a first delay before or after the feedback signal estimate is cancelled from the input signal; means for amplifying the delayed echo cancelled signal to generate the amplified signal to be transmitted, wherein the means for cancelling comprises; means for estimating the feedback channel using frequency domain channel estimation and using a signal indicative of the amplified signal as a pilot signal, the frequency domain channel estimation operative to perform a fast Fourier transform (FFT) on blocks of N samples of the pilot signal, N being the size of the FFT operation; and means for blanking K samples of the pilot signal in each block of N samples, K being much less than N, wherein the means for estimating the feedback channel generates a feedback channel estimate using blocks of N samples of the pilot signal, each block of N samples including K blanked samples, and blocks of N samples of the receive signal, the means for estimating the feedback channel further generates the feedback signal estimate based on the feedback channel estimate.
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