Interference signal cancellation system

• US 6,002,727 A
• Filed: 10/16/1997
• Issued: 12/14/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Uesugi, Mitsuru
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fan, Chieh M.
• Application Number:
  US08/951,539
• Time in Patent Office: 789 Days
• Field of Search: 375/200, 375/207, 375/346, 375/343, 375/349, 455/296, 455/303, 370/320, 370/342, 370/441, 370/479
• US Class Current: 375/346
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/692 Hybrid techniques using combinations of two or more spread spectrum techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/71072 Successive interference cancellation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7115 Constructive combining of multi-path signals, i.e. RAKE receivers

Abstract

The interference signal cancellation system of the invention has: usual CDMA demodulators respectively disposed for codes, each of the CDMA demodulators having a matched filter 105 and an identifier 107; and a likelihood calculator 108 for each of the demodulators. The apparatus further has: a buffer 103 which stores provisional decision values; another buffer 109 which stores likelihoods; an order determining device 110 which determines an order in accordance with the likelihoods; a respreading device 111 which performs respreading in accordance with the determined order; a delay device 102 which delays a received signal; and a subtractor 112 which subtracts a result of the respreading from the delayed data. For each symbol, the largest likelihood is selected, and a replica is generated by using it. A desired performance is attained by performing one provisional decision and one demodulation. Therefore, computational complexity is reduced and realization is facilitated.

Claims

1. An interference signal cancellation system, comprising:

a CDMA demodulator disposed for each of a plurality of diffusion codes and having a matched filter and an identifier;

a likelihood calculator for each of said CDMA demodulators;

a first buffer for storing provisional decision values;

a second buffer for storing likelihoods;

an order determining device for determining an order according to the likelihoods stored in said second buffer;

a respreading device for performing respreading according to the order determined by said order determining device; and

a delay device for delaying a received signal; and

a subtractor for subtracting a result of the respreading from data of the signal delayed by said delay device;

wherein interference is canceled while demodulating codes in decreasing order of likelihood.

2. An interference signal cancellation system according to claim 1, wherein said likelihood calculator comprises one of a set of a conjugate generator, a multiplier, an arc tangent calculator, and an absolute value calculator, and a set of an arc tangent calculator, a subtractor, and an absolute value calculator;

and

wherein said likelihood calculator outputs an absolute value of a phase difference between an input and an output of said identifier.

3. An interference signal cancellation system according to claim 1, wherein said likelihood calculator comprises one of a set of a conjugate generator, a multiplier, and a likelihood addition ROM, and a set of a conjugate generator, a multiplier, an I*Q calculator, and an absolute value calculator;

and

wherein a likelihood is set to be larger as an input of said identifier is more remote from an I-axis and a Q-axis.

4. An interference signal cancellation system according to claim 1, wherein, in respreading of said respreading device, when users have different timings or when there exists a delayed wave, respreading is performed by convoluting an impulse response which is obtained by convoluting an impulse response of a transmission/reception filter, into an estimated line in consideration of influence due to band limitation, to improve performance.

5. An interference signal cancellation system according to claim 1, wherein, in the order determination of said order determining device, when a frame contains a known signal, the order is determined with assigning highest priority to the known signal, thereby improving performance.

6. An interference signal cancellation system according to claim 1, wherein, in said likelihood calculator, said calculator comprises a conjugate generator, a multiplier, and an absolute value calculator, and independent likelihoods are respectively added to I and Q sides on the basis of real and imaginary parts obtained as a result of multiplication;

wherein in said order determining device, the I and Q sides are independently handled; and

wherein in said respreading device and said subtractor, the I and Q sides are processed in independent orders according to the order determined by said order determining device.