Adaptive array communication system and receiver

An adaptive array communication system comprising a transmitter which modulates coded information data by a predetermined modulation method, and a receiver which performs known viterbi decoding to a received signal from the transmitter to select a most likely path,

• wherein the receiver includes, for each state of the viterbi decoding,
• an adaptive control unit which performs weight performs weight control on the basis of a known adaptive algorithm, multiplies received signals from a plurality of antennas by a complex weight shared by all the states to perform weighting processes depending on the received signals, and, thereafter, combines the weighted signals to perform such control that a desired wave component is maximized and an interference wave component is minimized;
• a decoding unit which adds a branch metric and a path metric calculated by a difference between a signal obtained after the weighting combining and a reference signal (replicate signal) serving as an ideal received signal to calculate a metric corresponding to a transition to a desired state;
• and
• a vector calculation unit which calculates an error vector for calculating a complex weight which is shared by all states on the basis of the signal obtained after the weighting combining and the reference signal, and
• the receiver further comprises a maximum-likely state decision unit which decides a candidate of complex weight in a maximum-likely state at a specific symbol timing as a complex weight shared by all states at the next symbol timing for each receiver, and
• wherein the directivities of the plurality of antennas are adaptively controlled to perform a removing process of an inerference wave except for a desired wave or a combining process of a plurality of desired waves.

A receiver which performs known viterbi decoding to a signal from a transmitter which modulates coded information data by a predetermined modulation method, the receiver comprising:

• for each state of viterbi decoding,
• an adaptive control unit which performs weight control on the basis of a known adaptive algorithm, multiplies received signals from a plurality of antennas by complex weights which are different from each other for the respective states to perform weighting processes depending on the received signals, and, thereafter, combines the weighted signals to perform such control that a desired wave component is maximized and an interference wave component is minimized;
• a decoding unit which adds a branch metric and a path metric calculated by a difference between a signal obtained after the weighting combining and a reference signal (replicate signal) serving as an ideal received signal to calculate a metric corresponding to a transition to a desired state;
• and
• an error vector calculation unit which calculates an error vector for calculating complex weights which are different from each other for the respective states on the basis of the signal obtained after the weighting combining and the reference signal.

A receiver which performs known viterbi decoding to a signal from a transmitter for demodulating coded information data by a predetermined modulation method, receiver comprising:

• for each state of viterbi decoding,
• an adaptive control unit which performs weight control on the basis of a known adaptive algorithm, multiplies received signals from a plurality of antennas by a complex weight shared by all states to perform weighting processes depending on the received signals, and, thereafter, combines the weighted signals to perform such control that a desired wave component is maximized and an interference wave component is minimized;
• a decoding unit which adds a branch metric and a branch metric and a path metric calculated by a difference between a signal obtained after the weighting combining and a reference signal (replicate signal) serving as an ideal received signal to calculate a metric corresponding to a transition to a desired state;
• and
• an error vector calculation unit which calculates an error vector for calculating a complex weight which is shared by all the states on the basis of the signal obtained after the weighting combining and the reference signal, and
• the receiver further comprises a maximum-likely state decision unit which decides a candidate of complex weight in a maximum-likely state at a specific symbol timing as a complex weight shared by all states at the next symbol timing.