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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2007
Applicants:
Keun-chul Hwang, Seongnam-si, KR;
Soong-yoon Choi, Suwon-si, KR;
Soon-young Yoon, Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, , KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 27/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus and method for generating LLRs in an MIMO communication system. In a receiver for a spatial multiplexing communication system, a determiner performs an MML decoding operation in an ascending or descending order of TX antennas to estimate a plurality of candidate TX vectors. A distance calculator calculates a Euclidean distance for each of the candidate TX vectors from the determiner. An LLR calculator calculates LLRs using the Euclidean distances from the distance calculator. Accordingly, it is possible to generate an LLR with high reliability at low complexity in an MIMO communication system.