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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2004
Brian Hart, Wollstonecraft, AU;
John D. O'sullivan, Hunters Hill, AU;
Brian Hart, Wollstonecraft, AU;
John D. O'Sullivan, Hunters Hill, AU;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In an OFDM radio receiver for a wireless packet network, an apparatus to equalize a presently received OFDM signal containing subcarriers using an equalizing signal formed from the past symbols of subcarriers. The apparatus includes a subtractor to subtract the equalizing signal from the present signal, a DFT device to convert to subcarriers, a forward processor to correct the subcarriers for the channel and phase errors, a decision device to make decisions for the subcarriers, a reverse processor to corrupt the decision-based subcarriers' phase in the same manner as the forward processor corrects the subcarrier's phase, an inverse DFT device to form a time signal from the reverse processed subcarriers, and a feedback filter to generate the equalizing signal. The feedback filter's impulse response is directly calculated from an estimate of the channel response.