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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2010
Steven J. Howard, Ashland, MA (US);
Tadeusz Jarosinski, San Diego, CA (US);
Dhananjay Ashok Gore, San Diego, CA (US);
Gwendolyn Denise Barriac, Encinitas, CA (US);
Michael Mao Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
Tao Tian, San Diego, CA (US);
Steven J. Howard, Ashland, MA (US);
Tadeusz Jarosinski, San Diego, CA (US);
Dhananjay Ashok Gore, San Diego, CA (US);
Gwendolyn Denise Barriac, Encinitas, CA (US);
Michael Mao Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
Tao Tian, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A wireless repeater includes a channel estimation block to estimate a feedback channel between the antennas of the repeater using frequency domain channel estimation. The repeater includes a pilot signal blanking circuit to blank out a selected number of samples of the pilot signal to improve the accuracy of the channel estimation. In another embodiment, the repeater replaces T samples of the pilot signal with a cyclic prefix.