Method and device for quantizing the input to soft decoders
First Claim
1. Method for processing a received signal, the signal being received from a dynamically fading channel, the method comprising the steps of:
- detecting the fading characteristics of said fading channel;
determining a quantization correction command for at least one segment of said received signal;
quantizing said at least one segment according to said quantization correction command, thereby producing a quantized signal; and
decoding said quantized signal,wherein said step of decoding said quantized signal is performed while taking into account said quantization correction command with respect to said at least one segment.
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Abstract
A receiver including a signal reception unit, for receiving a signal from a dynamically fading channel, a demodulator, connected to the signal reception unit, for demodulating the received signal, thereby producing a demodulated signal therefrom, a quantizing processor, connected to the demodulator and to the signal reception unit, for analyzing the received signal and for quantizing the demodulated signal, thereby producing a quantized signal, and a decoder, connected to the quantzing processor, for decoding the quantized signal, wherein the quantizing processor normalizes the demodulated signal according to the estimated fading of the received signal.
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18 Claims
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1. Method for processing a received signal, the signal being received from a dynamically fading channel, the method comprising the steps of:
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detecting the fading characteristics of said fading channel; determining a quantization correction command for at least one segment of said received signal; quantizing said at least one segment according to said quantization correction command, thereby producing a quantized signal; and decoding said quantized signal, wherein said step of decoding said quantized signal is performed while taking into account said quantization correction command with respect to said at least one segment. - View Dependent Claims (2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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3. The method according to step 1, wherein said step of detecting comprises the sub-steps of:
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estimating the RMS of said received signal; and computing the minimal and maximal quantities of the samples of said received signal.
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11. In a receiver which includes a signal reception unit, a demodulator and a decoder, the receiver receiving a signal from a dynamically fading channel, the demodulator demodulating said received signal thereby producing a demodulated signal, a quantizing device comprising:
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a channel fading detection unit, connected to said signal reception unit, for detecting the fading characteristics of said dynamically fading channel; a processor, connected to said channel fading detection unit, for processing said fading characteristics, thereby producing a correction command for at least one segment of said received signal; a quantizing unit connected to said processor, said demodulator and said decoder, for quantizing said demodulated signal, thereby producing a quantized signal, wherein said quantizing unit also corrects said at least one segment according to said correction command; wherein said decoder decodes said quantized signal, and wherein said processor provides said correction command to said decoder and said decoder decodes said quantized signal according to said correction command. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13)
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14. In a receiver which includes a signal reception unit, a demodulator, a quantizing unit and a decoder, the receiver receiving a signal from a dynamically fading channel, the demodulator demodulating said received signal thereby producing a demodulated signal, a fading compensation device comprising:
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a channel fading detection unit, connected to said signal reception unit, for detecting the fading characteristics of said dynamically fading channel; a processor, connected to said channel fading detection unit, for processing said fading characteristics, thereby producing a correction command for at least one segment of said received signal; a correction unit, connected to said processor, said demodulator and said quantizing unit, for correcting the demodulated segment corresponding to said at least one segment according to said correction command, thereby producing a corrected segment, wherein said correction unit replaces said demodulated segment with said corrected segment at the input of said quantizing unit, and wherein said processor determines said correction command by calculating Θ
min and Θ
max values, wherein Θ
[n]≡
|Real{h[n]}|+|Imag{h[n]}.vertline., Θ
max ≡
Maxn {Θ
[n]}, and Θ
min ≡
Minn {Θ
[n]56 , and subsequently determining a desired RMS fade value from said Θ
min, Θ
max, and Θ
[n]. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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17. A receiver comprising:
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a signal reception unit, for receiving a signal from a dynamically fading channel; a demodulator, connected to said signal reception unit, for demodulating said received signal, thereby producing a demodulated signal therefrom; a quantizing processor, connected to said demodulator and to said signal reception unit, for analyzing said received signal and for quantizing said demodulated signal thereby producing a quantized signal; and a decoder, connected to said quantizing processor, for decoding said quantized signal, wherein said quantizing processor normalizes said demodulated signal according to the estimated fading of said received signal, and wherein said quantizing processor analyzes said received signal by calculating Θ
min and Θ
max values, wherein Θ
[n]≡
|Real{h[n]}|+|Imag{h[n]}.vertline., Θ
max ≡
Maxn {Θ
[n]}, and Θ
min ≡
Minn {Θ
[n]}, and subsequently determining a desired RMS fade value from said Θ
min, Θ
max, and Θ
[n]. - View Dependent Claims (18)
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