Patent ID: 9673850
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04J,H04L

Claim:
1. A radio communication device comprising: a receiver configured to receive a radio signal on a radio channel; a noise level determination circuit configured to determine a noise level of the radio signal; an interference determination circuit configured to determine interference information indicating an amount of interference of the radio signal with another signal; an equalizer configured to determine a softbit based on the radio signal and the determined noise level; and a scaling circuit configured to scale at least one of the noise level and/or the softbit based on the determined interference information, wherein the scaling circuit is configured to determine a scaling factor and configured to scale based on the scaling factor and wherein the scaling circuit is configured to determine the scaling factor for a pre-determined shift in an OFDM symbol based on a square root of a quotient of a minimum inter-cell interference encountered at various shifts in the OFDM symbol and the inter-cell interference at the pre-determined shift in the OFDM symbol.