Reliablity-controlled data reception in receivers for TDMA mobile radio systems

A method for data detection of TDMA data bursts, which have a central test sequence (A.sub.0), by determining the identification parameters of the transmission channel, wherein the following steps are carried out for one data burst in each case:

• a) the two data segments between which the test sequence within the data burst is situated are respectively subdivided into N sectors;
• b) a first channel unit pulse response is determined from the test sequence;
• c) with the aid of the first channel unit pulse response, the data of the two sectors (A.sub.-1, A.sub.1) which immediately adjoin the test sequence in the forward and reverse directions, respectively, are determined as detection results;
• d) the reliability of the detection result last determined in the forward direction is compared with the reliability of the detection result last determined in the reverse direction, the less reliable detection result is rejected and the further detection direction is fixed on that forward or reverse direction which corresponds to the direction in which --viewed from the test sequence--the more reliable detection result is situated;
• e) the channel unit pulse responses of all sectors are updated with the aid of the more reliable detection result;
• f) with the aid of the channel unit pulse responses determined in the previously processed sectors, the detection result of the following sector is determined in the fixed detection direction and, instead of the rejected detection result, a new detection result is detected in the opposite direction on the basis of the channel unit pulse responses of the previously processed sectors;
• and,
• g) the steps d) to f) are repeated until the data of all the sectors are detected.