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Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2013

Filed:

Apr. 12, 2011
Applicants:

Tarik Tabet, Montreal, CA;

Carlo Luschi, Bristol, GB;

Inventors:

Tarik Tabet, Montreal, CA;

Carlo Luschi, Bristol, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 3/46 (2006.01); H04B 17/00 (2006.01); H04Q 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Method, receiver and computer program product for processing a signal transmitted from a plurality of spatially separated transmit antennas using a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output transmission over a wireless network. The signal is received at a plurality of spatially separated receive antennas, the signal comprising a plurality of data streams and the quality/reliability of each of the data streams in the received signal is determined. Based on the determined quality/reliability of the data streams, a decoding technique is selected to be one of (i) a successive decoding technique for successively decoding data streams in which one of the data streams is decoded and a signal corresponding to said one of the data streams is removed from the received signal prior to decoding further data streams in the received signal, and (ii) a non-successive decoding technique in which each data stream is decoded from the received signal by treating the other data streams as noise in the received signal. The received signal is then decoded using the selected decoding technique.


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