Method of estimating doppler spread and signal-to-noise ratio of a received signal
First Claim
1. A method for estimating a Doppler spread and a signal-to-noise ratio of a signal, comprising:
- (a) Receiving the signal in a receiver to determine a carrier component of the signal;
(b) Calculating loss in coherence of the carrier component at a first time point relative to a pilot signal embedded in the received signal;
(c) Calculating loss in coherence of the carrier component of the received signal at a second time point relative to the pilot signal;
(d) Repeating steps (b) and (c) over multiple time periods, each time period being longer than the second time, and accumulating the loss in coherence for the first time points and the second time points; and
(e) Deriving the Doppler spread and the signal-to-noise ratio based on the accumulated loss in coherence calculated at the first and second time points.
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Abstract
A method for estimating a Doppler spread and a signal-to-noise ratio of a received signal includes: (a) calculating one or more functions of a carrier component of the received signal at a first time point relative to a pilot signal embedded in the received signal; (b) Calculating the one or more functions of the carrier component of the received signal at a second time point relative to the pilot signal; (c) repeating steps (a) and (b) over multiple time periods, each time period being substantially longer than the second time, and accumulating the one or more functions for the first time points and the second time points; and (d) Deriving the Doppler spread and the signal-to-noise ration based on the accumulated one or more functions calculated at the first and second time points. In one embodiment, the first time point is substantially closer to the pilot signal than the second time point. The first time point is one symbol interval from the pilot signal.
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19 Claims
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1. A method for estimating a Doppler spread and a signal-to-noise ratio of a signal, comprising:
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(a) Receiving the signal in a receiver to determine a carrier component of the signal; (b) Calculating loss in coherence of the carrier component at a first time point relative to a pilot signal embedded in the received signal; (c) Calculating loss in coherence of the carrier component of the received signal at a second time point relative to the pilot signal; (d) Repeating steps (b) and (c) over multiple time periods, each time period being longer than the second time, and accumulating the loss in coherence for the first time points and the second time points; and (e) Deriving the Doppler spread and the signal-to-noise ratio based on the accumulated loss in coherence calculated at the first and second time points. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for estimating doppler spread and signal-to-noise ratio, comprising:
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means for receiving a signal and for determining a carrier component of the signal; means for calculating loss in coherence of the carrier component at a first time point relative to the pilot signal; means for calculating loss in coherence of the carrier component at a second time point relative to the pilot signal; means for calculating an accumulated loss in coherence for the first time point and the second time point over a period of time intervals; and means for deriving the doppler spread and signal-to-noise ratio based on the accumulated loss in coherence. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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