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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2000
Essam a Sourour, Cary, NC (US);
Essam A Sourour, Cary, NC (US);
Ericsson Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Abstract
A method and system reduce multipath signal interference in a CDMA receiver. The CDMA receiver including parallel first and second RAKE receivers receives a multipath signal. The first RAKE receiver includes a number of individual RAKE fingers, each operating with a defined finger delay matched to a propagation path delay. The output signal from each RAKE finger includes multipath interference. The second RAKE receiver includes a group of RAKE fingers corresponding to each RAKE finger in the first RAKE receiver. Each group of RAKE fingers is configured to produce an estimate of the multipath interference in the output signal generated by the corresponding RAKE finger in the first RAKE receiver. The estimated multipath interference signals are scaled, and then subtracted from the RAKE finger outputs from the first RAKE receiver to reduce multipath interference. Scaling coefficients are adjusted to ensure that such subtraction effectively reduces multipath interference.