Patent ID: 8971459
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: H03M,H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A receiver, comprising: a plurality of receiver pathways configured to (i) receive, via respective receive antennas, a radio frequency signal transmitted over a communication channel and (ii) generate a plurality of respective baseband signals corresponding to the radio frequency signal; a channel estimator configured to generate an estimate of the communication channel based on the plurality of respective baseband signals; a demodulator configured to (i) generate, based on the plurality of respective baseband signals and the estimate of the communication channel, channel state information corresponding to the communication channel, (ii) perform maximum ratio combining on the plurality of respective baseband signals using the channel state information, and (iii) generate, based on the estimate of the communication channel, a plurality of demodulated symbols that incorporate the channel state information; and a decoder configured to perform decoding on the plurality of demodulated symbols that incorporate the channel state information in order to generate respective decoded symbols.