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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2008
Seong Rag Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Junyoung Nam, Daejeon, KR;
Hyun Kyu Chung, Daejeon, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
A reception apparatus including: a detection unit detecting extrinsic information based on a tentative symbol decision signal, a channel estimation signal, a noise variance estimation signal, and a received signal that are obtained from a previous iteration process; a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) aided channel decoding unit outputting an interleaved bit or a posteriori information thereof based on the extrinsic information; a tentative symbol decision unit determining a tentative transmission symbol based on an output of the CRC aided channel decoding unit; a channel estimation unit estimating a channel based on an output of the tentative symbol decision unit; and a noise variance estimation unit estimating a noise variance based on the output of the tentative symbol decision unit and an output of the channel estimation unit is provided.