Patent ID: 6138260
Filing Date: 2000-10-24
Classification: H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
A multiple access system of communication, comprising:a Turbo encoder for Turbo encoding signal representations of packets of information;a transmitter for transmitting a first signal representation of a packet of information and a second signal which include a re-transmission of part of the first signal and a new signal representation of the packet of information;a Turbo decoder processor;a first input system for receiving soft bit metrics within the first transmitted signal representation and inputting the metrics into the Turbo decoder processor; anda second input system for receiving the second signal and splitting the second signal into a new signal representation and a re-transmitted part, the new signal representation being directly inputted into the Turbo decoder processor and the re-transmitted part being provided to a rake processor for combination with corresponding data from the first signal representation, the rake processor providing an output to the Turbo decoder processor.