Patent ID: 9571232
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04J,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for operating a receiving device, the method comprising: receiving, by the receiving device, a plurality of faster than Nyquist (FTN)-rate undecoded data streams having different reliability ratings, in a received transmission; determining, by the receiving device, the reliability ratings for the plurality of FTN-rate undecoded data streams in the received transmission; selecting, by the receiving device, one of the FTN-rate undecoded data streams in the received transmission in accordance with the determined reliability ratings, thereby producing a selected FTN-rate data stream; decoding, by the receiving device, the selected FTN-rate data stream with a decoding trellis, thereby producing a data symbol; updating, by the receiving device, the decoding trellis in accordance with the data symbol; and repeating, by the receiving device, the selecting, the decoding, and the updating for remaining FTN-rate undecoded data streams in the received transmission.