Method and apparatus for determining components of a channel impulse response for use in a SAIC equalizer

A method for use by a receiver of a wireless communication system in receiving over a communication channel a radio transmission burst of a number of symbols including a known training sequence of symbols, the communication channel having a channel response to a transmitted symbol, the receiver using an equalizer (14) having taps based on estimated values of components of a channel impulse response characterizing the response of the communication channel to a transmitted symbol, the method including a step (21) of receiving and sampling the radio transmission burst, the method characterized by:

• a step (22) of minimizing, with respect to possible values of the channel impulse response components, a cost function (Jch(h)) indicating a cumulative difference magnitude between power associated with estimated interference samples and an average interference power, wherein the interference samples are estimated as a difference between samples of the received radio transmission burst and the corresponding channel response to the known training sequence.