Patent ID: 6999530
Filing Date: 2006-02-14
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication receiving apparatus, comprising: an antenna for receiving via first and second wireless communication channels a composite communication symbol that represents first and second communication symbols which correspond to respective results of first and second coding operations performed by a transmitter apparatus on a bit stream and an interleaved version of the bit stream, respectively; a probability generator coupled to said antenna and responsive to said composite communication symbol for generating, for each of said first and second communication symbols, a corresponding plurality of probabilities that the communication symbol has respective ones of a plurality of possible values of the communication symbol; first and second SISO decoders respectively corresponding to said first and second coding operations, and each having a first input coupled to said probability generator for respectively receiving therefrom the pluralities of probabilities corresponding to said first and second communication symbols, respectively, the first SISO decoder having a second input coupled to a first output of the second SISO decoder, and the second SISO decoder having a second input coupled to a first output of the first SISO decoder; and said probability generator operable for generating at least one of said pluralities of probabilities also in response to SISO information received by said probability generator from a second output of each of said SISO decoders.