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William Y Velez

James W Bond

Thomas W Schlosser

Stefen Hui

Processors which process baseband received signal sample amplitudes and ones which process baseband received sample phases are combined in a single general processor which cancels a greater variety of interference than any of the individual processors incorporated into it. This processor combines a wide-range of processors, for example, processors which filter baseband in-phase/quadrature sample amplitudes and phases. This general processor performs against any interferer as well as, or better than, the best of the processors it includes. The general processor assesses individual processor outputs and weights these so that those processors with the best interference suppressed outputs are utilized to form an interference suppressed output.

Adaptive processor integrator for interference suppression

A simplified interference suppressor extends the applicability of adaptive ocally optimum techniques to high speed communication systems. Traditional adaptive locally optimum processing amplitude quantity techniques compel baseband sample amplitudes calculation requiring square root operations that could limit the use of these techniques. The simplified interference suppressor utilizes amplitude squared values of baseband samples while maintaining the performance of those processing algorithms requiring the complexities of baseband sample amplitude calculation.

Simplified interference suppressor

A method and apparatus are provided for suppressing interference from a sence of bandspread communication signals received by a radio receiver. Each sample is defined as a vector having signal and interference vector components. The interference vector component is such that: 1) the interference dominates the signal vector component, and 2) the phase of the interference vector components in the sequence changes slowly with time. Interference is suppressed while a portion of the signal vector component that is normal to the interference vector component is estimated as an indication of the bandspread communication signal. To do this, a phase angle is determined for each sample based upon each sample's defined vector. The phase angle for each sample is transformed into a corresponding phase vector based on a symmetric sampling of phase angles from previous and subsequent received signal samples. All terms of each corresponding phase vector are summed and averaged to generate a corresponding average phase gain for each sample. Each corresponding average phase gain is multiplied by a vector normal to the corresponding sample's defined vector to estimate the signal vector that is normal to the interference vector for each sample. The method and apparatus are effective whenever the phase of the interference vector components is characterized as having a frequency of change that is less than 1/2T, where T is the time required to receive the symmetric sampling.

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