Lucent Technologies Inc.

Michael Francis Garyantes

Harvey Rubin

Miguel Dajer

Steven Andrew Wood

Yue Lu

Lesley Phillip Sabel

Mario Zancan

A wireless communication system base station includes a number of channel unit boards, each including multiple channel elements for providing processing operations for signals assigned to multiple carriers of the system. A given channel unit board includes a multiplexer which is operative to implement multi-carrier/multi-sector channel pooling by assigning a given one of the channel elements of that board to any one of the multiple carriers of the system. For example, the multiplexer in the given channel board may be operative to connect the channel elements of that board to I/Q signal buses associated with different system carriers. The I/Q signal bus for each of the carriers is then combined on the given board with corresponding signals from other boards. The invention allows each of N channel elements of the given channel unit board to be assigned to a particular one of up to N carriers of the system, thereby providing substantially improved flexibility in terms of system configuration.

Multi-carrier/multi-sector channel pooling in a wireless communication system base station

A method of recovering transmitted symbols in a receiver of a spread spectrum system, comprising: receiving a signal including multi-path components associated with transmitted symbols; de-spreading successive separate portions of the received signal to provide a symbol estimate based on each multipath component, wherein the de-spreading step comprises determining at least one partial estimate of at least one transmitted symbol for an at least one partial multi-path component contained in a separate portion; and summing the partial estimates of separate portions corresponding to a same transmitted symbol.

Time division multiplexed rake finger for W-CDMA

In a CDMA communication system, a multiple rake finger is coupled to a plurality of antennae. The multiple rake finger includes one correlator per antenna. The correlators in the multiple rake finger are coupled, via a delay circuit, to a single code generator. The delay circuit compensates for delays which occur in transmission as well as delays due to the separate distance of the antennae.

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