Wireless communication system, receiver and signal processing method for received signal
AssigneeHitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
InventorsKatsuhiko Tsunehara, Yunjian Jia
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Abstract
The error correction capability for wireless communication carried out involving propagation path fluctuation in time and frequency selectivity can be improved. A soft decision likelihood value inputted to an error correction decoder is multiplied by a weight determined according to the distance between the data symbol and pilot symbol corresponding to the soft decision likelihood value. Namely, the soft decision bit likelihood value corresponding to the data symbol is weighted according to the distances in time or frequency between the pilot symbol and data symbol. The weight is made smaller when the distance in time or frequency is larger.
Claims11
A wireless communication system for communicating a radio signal, the system including a transmitter for transmitting a radio signal and a receiver for receiving the radio signal,
- wherein the transmitter comprises a signal transmitter for transmitting a radio signal to the receiver, and
- wherein the receiver comprises:
- a signal receiver for receiving a radio signal and processing the radio signal into a received signal;
- a pilot signal selector for separating a pilot signal from the received signal;
- a propagation path estimation part for estimating information on a radio signal propagation path using the pilot signal selected by the pilot signal selector;
- a propagation path correction part for correcting an effect of the propagation path using the propagation path information estimated by the propagation path estimation part, the effect being contained in the received signal;
- a demapping part for calculating a soft decision likelihood value by comparing the received signal having had the effect thereon of the propagation path corrected at the propagation path correction part and a reference signal, the soft decision likelihood value representing correctness, estimated from the received signal having had the effect thereon of the propagation path corrected, of the signal transmitted from the signal transmitter;
- a soft decision likelihood weighting part for calculating a weight according to a relationship between the pilot signal and the received signal and multiplying the soft decision likelihood value corresponding to the received signal by the weight;
- and
- an error correction decoder for performing error correction decoding using the soft decision likelihood value multiplied by the weight.
A receiver comprising:
- a signal receiver for receiving a radio signal and processing the radio signal into a received signal;
- a pilot signal selector for separating a pilot signal from the received signal;
- a propagation path estimation part for estimating information on a radio signal propagation path using the pilot signal selected by the pilot signal selector;
- a propagation path correction part for correcting an effect of the propagation path using the propagation path information estimated by the propagation path estimation part, the effect being contained in the received signal;
- a demapping part for calculating a soft decision likelihood value by comparing the received signal having had the effect thereon of the propagation path corrected at the propagation path correction part and a reference signal, the soft decision likelihood value representing correctness, estimated from the received signal having had the effect thereon of the propagation path corrected, of the signal transmitted from the signal transmitter;
- a soft decision likelihood weighting part for calculating a weight according to a relationship between the pilot signal and the received signal and multiplying the soft decision likelihood value corresponding to the received signal by the weight;
- and
- an error correction decoder for performing error correction decoding using the soft decision likelihood value multiplied by the weight.
A method of processing a received signal, comprising:
- receiving a radio signal and processing the radio signal into a received signal;
- separating a pilot signal from the received signal and estimating information on a radio signal propagation path using the separated pilot signal;
- correcting an effect of the propagation path using the estimated propagation path information, the effect being contained in the received signal;
- calculating a soft decision likelihood value by comparing the received signal having had the effect thereon of the propagation path corrected and a reference signal, the soft decision likelihood value representing correctness, estimated from the received signal having had the effect thereon of the propagation path corrected, of the signal transmitted from the signal transmitter;
- calculating a weight according to a relationship between the pilot signal and the received signal;
- multiplying the soft decision likelihood value corresponding to the received signal by the weight;
- and
- performing error correction decoding using the soft decision likelihood value multiplied by the weight.
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