CDMA reception method and a CDMA receiver which calculates an estimate from samples for each desired signal during a monitoring period

• US 5,930,289 A
• Filed: 03/12/1997
• Issued: 07/27/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nokia Telecommunications Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Telecommunications Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Lilleberg, Jorma, Laakso, Timo
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, AMANDA T
• Application Number:
  US08/809,532
• Time in Patent Office: 867 Days
• Field of Search: 375/200, 375/206, 375/229-232, 375/316, 375/340, 375/341, 375/346, 375/348-350, 370/203, 370/208, 370/209, 370/320, 370/335, 370/342, 370/441, 370/479, 371/43.6, 371/43.7, 371/43.8, 364/724.011, 364/724.19, 364/724.2, 455/130, 455/149, 455/296, 455/303, 455/305, 455/306, 455/307, 455/334, 455/337
• US Class Current: 375/130
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7105 Joint detection techniques, e.g. linear detectors
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/309 Measuring or estimating channel quality parameters

Abstract

The invention relates to a reception method and a receiver comprising means where a received signal is sampled, and means where the mutual delays of the transmissions contained in the signal and the strengths of the transmissions are measured from the received signal, said transmissions originating in one or more transmitters. In order to ensure reception of high quality, the receiver according to the invention comprises means, the input of which, is the sampled signal, and in which an estimate is calculated from the samples for each desired transmission on the basis of all samples which have arrived during a certain monitoring period, and that whenever a new sample arrives at the input of the means, the means updates the calculated estimates on the basis of the new sample.

Claims

1. A method of receiving signals in a CDMA system, comprising:

sampling a received CDMA signal, including a plurality of signal components, and measuring mutual delays of transmissions from the received CDMA signal, the transmissions originating from at least one transmitter;

applying a sampled CDMA signal to an estimator which processes sampled CDMA signals such that a corresponding estimate is calculated, from the sampled CDMA signals, for each one of at least one desired signal component by utilizing all sampled CDMA signals which arrived during a particular monitoring period; and

updating the corresponding estimate for each one of the at least one desired signal component, whenever a new sampled CDMA signal arrives at the estimator, based on changes in the new sampled CDMA signal.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the updating is performed by utilizing known matrix operations.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein a length of a monitoring period depends on properties of the received signal components.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the estimate is updated whenever a number of the received signal components is to be changed.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the updating is performed whenever a number of the received signal components is to be changed.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the applying further comprises applying at least two successive ones of the sampled CDMA signals at a time to the estimator as input before performing the updating.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein the obtained corresponding estimate for each one of the at last one desired signal component is subjected to post-processing where reliable channel and symbol estimates are calculated from the corresponding estimate.

8. A method according to claim 7, wherein the post-processing includes shaping the corresponding estimate with linear or nonlinear filtration methods.

9. A method according to claim 7, wherein during the post-processing signals of different users are divided into groups, each of the groups comprises signals of at least two users, and the signals of a group are detected simultaneously.

10. A method according to claim 9, wherein during the post-processing each of the groups is detected in succession, and detected signals of the groups are regenerated and deleted from a received transmission before detection of a next group.

11. A method according to claim 9, wherein during the post-processing each of the groups is detected in parallel.

12. A method according to claim 1, wherein the updating step is performed without again performing the applying step.

13. A receiver according to claim 1, wherein the corresponding estimate for each one of the at least one desired signal component comprises channel attenuation estimates and a user symbol estimate.

14. A method according to claim 13, wherein the updating is performed by utilizing known matrix operations.

15. A method according to claim 13, wherein a length of a monitoring period depends on properties of the received signal components.

16. A method according to claim 15, wherein the estimate is updated whenever a number of the received signal components is to be changed.

17. A method according to claim 13, wherein the updating is performed whenever a number of the received signal components is to be changed.

18. A method according to claim 13, wherein the applying further comprises applying at least two successive ones of the sampled CDMA signals at a time to the estimator as input before performing the updating.

19. A method according to claim 12, wherein the post-processing includes shaping the corresponding estimate with linear or nonlinear filtration methods.

20. A method according to claim 12, wherein during the post-processing signals of different users are divided into groups, each of the groups comprises signals of at least two users, and the signals of a group are detected simultaneously.

21. A method according to claim 20, wherein during the post-processing each of the groups is detected in succession, and detected signals of the groups are regenerated and deleted from a received transmission before detection of a next group.

22. A method according to claim 20, wherein during the post-processing each of the groups is detected in parallel.

23. A method according to claim 13, wherein the obtained corresponding estimate for each one of the at last one desired signal component is subjected to post-processing where reliable channel and symbol estimates are calculated from the corresponding estimate.

24. A receiver comprising:

means for sampling a received CDMA signal;

means for measuring mutual delays of transmissions included in the received CDMA signal and strengths of the transmissions, the transmissions originating in at least one transmitter; and

means for calculating a corresponding estimate, from a plurality of samples of the received CDMA signal, for each one of at least one desired transmission based on all samples which arrive during a particular monitoring period, wherein

whenever a new sample arrives at the receiver, the means for calculating updates the corresponding estimate for each one of the at least one desired transmission, based on changes in the new sample, without recalculating the corresponding estimate for each one of the at least one desired transmission.

25. A receiver according to claim 24, wherein the receiver comprises means for selecting a length of a monitoring period based on properties of the received CDMA signal.

26. A receiver according to claim 24, wherein the calculation means collects at least two samples from a sample line arriving as input before calculating a correction term for the corresponding estimate based on the samples.

27. A receiver according to claim 24, further comprising:

post-processing means, connected to an output of the calculating means, for calculating reliable channel and symbol estimates based on input preliminary estimates.

28. A receiver according to claim 27, wherein the post-processing means comprises:

means for dividing the output from the calculating means into several groups, each of the groups comprises signals of at least two users; and

means for performing simultaneous detection on the signals in each of the several groups.

29. A receiver according to claim 28, further comprising means for detecting each of the several groups in parallel.

30. A receiver according to claim 28, further comprising:

means for detecting each of the several groups in succession;

means for regenerating the signals of the several groups already detected from the received CDMA signal before detection of a next group; and

means for extracting the signals of the several groups already detected from the received CDMA signal before detection of the next group.

31. A receiver according to claim 24, wherein the corresponding estimate for each one of the at least one desired transmission comprises channel attenuation estimates and a user symbol estimate.

32. A receiver according to claim 31, wherein the receiver comprises means for selecting a length of a monitoring period based on properties of the received CDMA signal.

33. A receiver according to claim 31, further comprising:

post-processing means, connected to an output of the calculating means, for calculating reliable channel and symbol estimates based on input preliminary estimates.

34. A receiver according to claim 33, wherein the post-processing means comprises:

means for dividing the output from the calculating means into several groups, each of the groups comprises signals of at least two users; and

means for performing simultaneous detection on the signals in each of the several groups.

35. A receiver according to claim 34, further comprising:

means for detecting each of the several groups in succession;

means for regenerating the signals of the several groups already detected from the received CDMA signal before detection of a next group; and

means for extracting the signals of the several groups already detected from the received CDMA signal before detection of the next group.

36. A receiver according to claim 34, further comprising means for detecting each of the several groups in parallel.

37. A receiver according to claim 31, wherein the calculation means collects at least two samples from a sample line arriving as input before calculating a correction term for the corresponding estimate based on the samples.