Patent ID: 9525514
Filing Date: 2016-12-20
CPC Classification: H03C,H04B,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for decoding a block of data transmitted over a communication channel, comprising: receiving a block of data transmitted over a communication channel; determining a size of the block of data; selecting based on the size of the block at least one of a value of M for the QRD-M method and a number of the iterations for the LAS method, wherein M is a number of surviving paths in each stage of the QRD-M method; determining an initial estimate of bits in the block using a QR decomposition (QRD-M) method, wherein the QRD-M method decodes the bits in the block sequentially by reducing an accumulated distance between the initial estimate and the bits of the block; and determining the block using a likelihood ascent (LAS) method, wherein the LAS method iteratively updates the bits of the block starting from the initial estimate, wherein steps of the method are performed by a processor of a receiver.