Code reservation for interference measurement in a CDMA radiocommunication system
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1. A method for estimating interference in a radiocommunication system comprising the steps of:
- reserving at least one code in a set of codes for interference measurement only such that said at least one code is never used for transmitting signals;
receiving a composite signal that was not spread by using said at least one reserved code; and
estimating said interference at a receiver by correlating with said at least one reserved code.
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Abstract
Methods and structures for quickly and accurately measuring interference associated with a received signal in a CDMA radiocommunication system are described. Interference measurement is performed by despreading a received signal using a channelization code which is reserved from a finite set of orthogonal channelization codes. The reserved code is not used (or is rarely used) for spreading traffic and, therefore, provides an estimate of the interference associated with a received signal when a receiver correlates the received signal with the reserved code.
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1. A method for estimating interference in a radiocommunication system comprising the steps of:
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reserving at least one code in a set of codes for interference measurement only such that said at least one code is never used for transmitting signals; receiving a composite signal that was not spread by using said at least one reserved code; and estimating said interference at a receiver by correlating with said at least one reserved code. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A mobile station comprising:
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a receiver for receiving a composite signal over an air interface and despreading said signal using at least one channelization code; a processor for providing said at least one channelization code to said receiver, said at least one channelization code including a reserved code that is used only to estimate interference associated with said received signal, wherein said reserved code is never used for transmitting said signal. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A mobile station comprising:
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a receiver for receiving a signal over an air interface and despreading said signal using at least one channelization code; and a processor for providing said at least one channelization code to said receiver, said at least one channelization code including a reserved code that is used only to estimate interference associated with said received signal, wherein said at least one channelization code also includes a code associated with a traffic channel assigned to said mobile station; and wherein said code associated with said traffic channel is selected based upon a desired user bit rate for a connection between said mobile station and a radiocommunication system.
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14. A method for estimating interference in a system comprising a transmitter and a receiver, the method comprising the steps of:
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reserving at least one code in a set of codes for interference measurement only, wherein the reserved at least one code is used within the system only to despread received signals and not to encode signals for transmission; transmitting a signal that was not spread by using the reserved at least one code; receiving the signal; and estimating interference at the receiver by despreading the received composite signal using the reserved at least one code.
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15. A method of estimating interference at a receiver in a communications system, the method comprising:
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receiving a composite signal that includes a transmitted signal representing a data stream that has been spread by means of a first spreading code; using the first spreading code to despread the composite signal and thereby retrieve the transmitted signal; and estimating interference at the receiver by using a second spreading code to despread the composite signal, wherein the estimated interference represents interference that occurred during that part of the composite signal that includes the data stream, wherein the second spreading code is reserved for interference measurement such that the second spreading code is not typically used for spreading traffic. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A mobile unit for use in a communications system, the mobile unit comprising:
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a receiver that receives a composite signal that includes a transmitted signal representing a data stream that has been spread by means of a first spreading code; despreading logic that uses the first spreading code to despread the composite signal and thereby retrieve the transmitted signal; and interference estimating logic that estimates interference at the receiver by using a second spreading code to despread the composite signal, wherein the estimated interference represents interference that occurred during that part of the composite signal that includes the data stream, wherein the second spreading code is reserved for interference measurement such that the second spreading code is not used for spreading traffic. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24)
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