Patent ID: 8064498
Filing Date: 2011-11-22
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A method for processing at least one of high-rate subchannels and low-rate subchannels, the method comprising: configuring a processor to perform at least one of a high-rate analysis and a low-rate analysis for a plurality of coded subchannels in a received baseband signal; configuring the processor to calculate a signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR) for each of the plurality of coded subchannels; configuring the processor to employ a function of the SINR for processing high-rate and low-rate subchannels in the received baseband signal; configuring the processor to calculate a plurality of low-rate SINRs for a plurality of low-rate subchannels and at least one high-rate SINR for at least one high-rate subchannel; and configuring the processor to combine the plurality of low-rate SINRs to produce a summed SINR and to scale the at least one high-rate SINR by a ratio of the high rate and the low rate.