Patent ID: 8842782
Filing Date: 2014-09-23
Classification: H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for filtering a received signal to obtain a filtered signal, wherein the received signal has been transmitted by conducting a transmission, wherein the apparatus comprises: a detector configured to detect whether the transmission is either a single-user Multiple Input Multiple Output transmission or a multi-user Multiple Input Multiple Output transmission, and a filter application unit, wherein the filter application unit is configured to apply a first receive filter with a first filter characteristic on the received signal to obtain the filtered signal when the transmission is the single-user Multiple Input Multiple Output transmission, and wherein the filter application unit is configured to apply a second receive filter with a second, different filter characteristic on the received signal to obtain the filtered signal when the transmission is the multi-user Multiple Input Multiple Output transmission, wherein the detector is configured to determine whether a ratio of a maximum of main-diagonal coefficients of an interference-plus-noise covariance matrix and an average noise power is greater than one to determine whether the transmission is the multi-user Multiple Input Multiple Output transmission or the single-user Multiple Input Multiple Output transmission, wherein the filter application unit is configured to apply a Minimum-Mean-Square-Error receive filter as the second receive filter on the received signal when the transmission is the multi-user Multiple Input Multiple Output transmission, the Minimum-Mean-Square-Error receive filter being defined according to as the second receive filter on the received signal when the transmission is the multi-user Multiple Input Multiple Output transmission, wherein g