Receiver and signal receiving method thereof

• US 8,611,444 B2
• Filed: 06/22/2011
• Issued: 12/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Macronix International Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Infomax Communication Co., Ltd (Macronix International Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Shih, Shih-Yi
• Primary Examiner(s): Ghulamali, Qutbuddin
• Application Number:
  US13/166,787
• Publication Number:
  US 20120328054A1
• Time in Patent Office: 909 Days
• Field of Search: 375/260, 375/261, 375/340, 375/341, 375/295
• US Class Current: 375/260
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0204 of multiple channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/022 of frequency response
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0232 by interpolation between sounding signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03159 operating in the frequency domain H04L25/03165, H04L25/03178 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03821 Inter-carrier interference cancellation [ICI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2647 Arrangements specific to the receiver only equalisation H04L27/01

Abstract

A signal receiving method of a receiver includes the following steps. A time-domain received signal is transformed into a frequency-domain received signal, which includes multiple pilot symbols and multiple data symbols. Multiple channel impulse responses corresponding to the pilot symbols are estimated. Multiple inter-carrier interference and inter-block interference (ICIIBI) values corresponding to the pilot symbols are estimated based on the pilot symbols and the corresponding channel impulse responses. Multiple ICIIBI values corresponding to the data symbols are obtained via an interpolation operation according to the ICIIBI values corresponding to the pilot symbols. The estimated corresponding ICIIBI values are cancelled from the data symbols. The interference-cancelled data symbols are demapped to obtain soft-decision or hard-decision bits.

Claims

1. A receiver, comprising:

a demodulation unit for transforming a time-domain received signal into a frequency-domain received signal that comprises a plurality of pilot symbols and a plurality of data symbols;

a channel estimator for estimating a plurality of channel impulse responses corresponding to the pilot symbols;

an inter-carrier interference and inter-block interference (ICIIBI) estimation unit for estimating a plurality of ICIIBI values corresponding to the pilot symbols based on the pilot symbols and the corresponding channel impulse responses;

a finite impulse response filter for obtaining a plurality of ICIIBI values corresponding to the data symbols via an interpolation operation according to the ICIIBI values corresponding to the pilot symbols;

an adder for cancelling the ICIIBI values corresponding to the data symbols from the data symbols; and

a demapper for demapping the interference-cancelled data symbols to obtain estimation data corresponding to the time-domain received signal.

2. The receiver according to claim 1, wherein the demodulation unit comprises:

a guard interval removing unit for removing a plurality of guard intervals of the time-domain received signal; and

a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) transformation unit for transforming the guard-interval-removed time-domain signal into the frequency-domain received signal.

3. The receiver according to claim 1, further comprising:

an error correction decoder for performing error-detection and correction operations on the estimation data.

4. The receiver according to claim 3, wherein the error correction decoder is a low-density parity check decoder or a forward error correction decoder.

5. A signal receiving method of a receiver, comprising:

transforming a time-domain received signal into a frequency-domain received signal that comprises a plurality of pilot symbols and a plurality of data symbols;

estimating a plurality of channel impulse responses corresponding to the pilot symbols;

estimating a plurality of ICIIBI values corresponding to the pilot symbols based on the pilot symbols and the corresponding channel impulse responses;

obtaining a plurality of ICIIBI values corresponding to the data symbols via an interpolation operation according to the ICIIBI values corresponding to the pilot symbols;

cancelling the ICIIBI values corresponding to the data symbols from the data symbols; and

demapping the interference-cancelled data symbols to obtain estimation data corresponding to the time-domain received signal.

6. The signal receiving method according to claim 5, further comprising:

removing a plurality of guard intervals of the time-domain received signal; and

transforming the guard-interval-removed time-domain signal into the frequency-domain received signal.

7. The signal receiving method according to claim 5, further comprising:

performing error-detection and correction operations on the estimation data.