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Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2009

Filed:

Jun. 30, 2005
Applicants:

Jae-hwan Chang, Suwon-si, KR;

Yun-sang Park, Suwon-si, KR;

Sang-hoon Sung, Suwon-si, KR;

Inventors:

Jae-Hwan Chang, Suwon-si, KR;

Yun-Sang Park, Suwon-si, KR;

Sang-Hoon Sung, Suwon-si, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 17/00 (2006.01); H03D 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In an apparatus for estimating a Carrier-to-Interference-and-Noise Ratio (CINR) in a communication system, received signals are blocked based on sub-carriers with similar channel characteristics. Interference and noise levels and true received signal levels are computed on a block-by-block basis from the blocked received signals. CINRs are estimated on a block-by-block basis using ratios between the computed interference and noise levels and the computed true received signal levels. The apparatus can estimate a CINR for all channels even when the channel characteristics of the sub-carriers of the received signals are not similar to each other.


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