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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2007
Applicants:
Jun Wu, San Diego, CA (US);
Hongwei Kong, Denville, NJ (US);
LI Fung Chang, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Apparatus and method for processing a received pilot to obtain noise estimation of a pilot channel and processing a received first signal channel, separately from a second signal channel that is orthogonal to the first signal channel, to obtain a signal level of the first signal channel. The noise estimation and the signal level are used to calculate a SNR value. Detection on the first channel is done by checking the SNR and the sign of a soft metric.