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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2012
Matthew C. Bromberg, Leominster, MA (US);
Dale A. Branlund, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Weimin Sun, Boxborough, MA (US);
Matthew C. Bromberg, Leominster, MA (US);
Dale A. Branlund, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Weimin Sun, Boxborough, MA (US);
The DIRECTV Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems that enhance interference cancellation in communication channels are described. Samples are obtained from stacked carriers in a received signal and a data vector is created from the samples. Stacked carriers are selected using a steering vector received during synchronization of the receiver. The steering vector is calculated to obtain cancellation of interference from another receiver and is calculated based on time domain channel estimation. Specialized time domain training sequences and simple cross correlation are used to obtain a channel estimate for use in stacked carrier beamforming and/or for use in OFDM based spatial beamforming. State space or filter-based modeled interpolators or whitening matrix-filters in the frequency or time domain are used for interpolation of the channels to maintain linear beamforming weights as a function of time or frequency. Space time adaptive processing facilitates beamforming of communications signals for OFDM and 802.16 (WiMax) systems.