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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2002
Alexei Ashikhmin, Morristown, NJ (US);
Gerhard Guenter Theodor Kramer, Bedminster, NJ (US);
Stephan Ten Brink, Highlands, NJ (US);
Alexei Ashikhmin, Morristown, NJ (US);
Gerhard Guenter Theodor Kramer, Bedminster, NJ (US);
Stephan Ten Brink, Highlands, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for reducing the number of erred bits in the decoded signal by using a channel decoder whose transfer characteristic is matched to the transfer characteristic of the MIMO detector. This means that the curve of the transfer characteristic of the MIMO detector is 1) above the curve of the reflected transpose of the transfer characteristic of the channel decoder for about 95% of the curve, and 2) close to the reflected transpose of the curve of the transfer characteristic of the channel decoder. Particularly, an LDPCC decoder can be used as the channel decoder and can be matched to the MIMO detector by matching 1) the transfer characteristic of the LDPCC decoder's CND to 2) the transfer characteristic of a combination of the MIMO detector and the LDPCC VND. Furthermore, the LDPCC can be similarly matched to any appropriate detector in addition to or instead of the MIMO detector. Additionally, a receiver can re-match the transfer characteristics of the detector and the channel decoder when the channel characteristics and/or SNR of the received signals change.