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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2008
Markku J. Heikkila, Oulu, FI;
Markku J. Heikkila, Oulu, FI;
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
An apparatus for determining a symbol estimate includes a detection unit, an information storage, a channel decoder, and an estimator. One or more detectors of the detection unit is configured to detect a first data stream and the one or more detectors or one or more other detectors are configured to detect a second data stream when interference cancellation is carried out and when interference cancellation is not carried out parallel to detection of a first data stream to obtain results of detection. The information storage is configured to store the results of the detection of the second data stream, and the channel decoder is configured to channel decode a detected first data stream. The estimator is configured to determine a symbol estimate by using the stored results of the detection of the second data stream and based on the success of the channel decoding of the first data stream.