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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1998
Moe Rahnema, Bethesda, MD (US);
Zhen-Liang Shi, Germantown, MD (US);
Ludong Wang, Germantown, MD (US);
Yezdi Antia, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Mohammad Soleimani, Rockville, MD (US);
Hughes Electronics Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of channel estimation in a wireless communication system has steps of receiving a data burst comprising a plurality of portions of known data, and remaining data that is unknown; comparing reference data to each of the plurality of portions of known data and determining error for each of the portions of known data; averaging the determined error for predetermined ones of the portions of known data; and estimating error for at least a portion of the remaining data as a function of the determined error having been averaged.