Interference canceller for CDMA

• US 5,930,229 A
• Filed: 03/10/1997
• Issued: 07/27/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Ushirokawa, Akihisa, Yoshida, Shousei
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Chi H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGO, RICKY QUOC
• Application Number:
  US08/814,428
• Time in Patent Office: 869 Days
• Field of Search: 370/203, 370/208, 370/286, 370/290, 370/291, 370/292, 370/342, 370/441, 370/335, 370/516, 375/200, 375/206, 375/207, 375/316, 375/324, 375/326, 375/343, 375/346, 375/350, 455/500, 455/501, 455/63, 455/296, 455/307
• US Class Current: 370/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7087 Carrier synchronisation aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7107 Subtractive interference cancellation

Abstract

A code-orthogonalizing filter 101 performs inverse spread using an orthogonalizing coefficient, which is obtained through a constraint condition process on a code multiplexed received signal as an input with a desired spread code waveform and independent on transmission line variations, thus detecting a desired wave at a constant power level while suppressing interference waves. A carrier tracking circuit 102 effects carrier phase synchronization of the detected desired wave. A symbol decision unit 104 decides the output of the carrier tracking circuit 102 to be the most certain symbol. An adder 104 extracts as symbol decision error signal from the outputs of the symbol decision unit 103 and the carrier tracking circuit 102. A tap coefficient control means 105 adaptively updates the tap coefficient according to the input to the code-orthogonalizing filter 101, a reproduced carrier outputted from the carrier tracking circuit 102, a symbol decision error signal outputted from the adder 104 and the desired wave spread code waveform.

Claims

1. An interference canceller for CDMA comprising:

a code-orthogonalizing filter for despreading a code-multiplexed received signal as an input using tap coefficients, which are independent of channel variations, and are obtained from tap coefficients control means through tap constraint processing with a desired user'"'"'s chip waveform, and detecting a desired user'"'"'s signal at a constant power while suppressing interferences;

a carrier tracking circuit for effecting carrier phase synchronization of the despread desired user'"'"'s signal;

a symbol decision unit for deciding the output of the carrier tracking circuit to be the most possible transmitted symbol;

an adder for extracting a symbol decision error signal from the outputs of the symbol decision unit and the carrier tracking circuit; and

the tap coefficient control means for adaptively controlling the tap coefficients on the basis of the input to the code-orthogonalizing filter, a recovery carrier outputted from the carrier tracking circuit, the symbol decision error signal, and the desired user'"'"'s chip waveform.

2. The interference canceller for CDMA according to claim 1, wherein the tap coefficient control means includes tap coefficients updating means for performing least minimum squared error control to determine the tap coefficients to minimize the mean power of the symbol decision error signal, and tap coefficients constraint processing means for performing tap coefficient constraint processing on updated tap coefficients outputted from the tap coefficients updating means in a timing synchronized with the desired signal in the code-multiplexed received signal and by using the desired user'"'"'s chip waveform.

3. The interference canceller for CDMA according to claim 2, wherein the tap coefficients constraint processing means obtains the projection of the updated top coefficients on a constraint plane orthogonal the desired user'"'"'s chip waveform vector in a code vector space, and calculates the sum of the projected vector and the desired user'"'"'s chip waveform vector itself as orthogonal coefficients vector.

4. An interference cancelling method for CDMA comprising the step of:

despreading a code-multiplexed received signal as an input using tap coefficients, which are independent of channel variations, and are obtained from tap coefficient control through tap constraint processing with desired user'"'"'s chip waveform, and detecting a desired user'"'"'s signal at a constant power while suppressing interferences;

effecting carrier phase synchronization of the despread desired user'"'"'s signal;

deciding the output of a carrier tracking circuit to be the most possible transmitted symbol;

extracting a symbol decision error signal from the outputs of the symbol decision unit and a carrier tracking circuit; and

adaptively controlling the tap coefficients on the basis of the input to the code-orthogonalizing filter, a recovery carrier outputted from the carrier tracking circuit, the symbol decision error signal, and the desired user'"'"'s chip waveform.