Patent ID: 7630344
Filing Date: 2009-12-08
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. In a communications network comprising a base station and a plurality of user equipment (UE), the network having at least one radio frequency communications path between each UE and the base station, the base station comprising a plurality of antennas and at least one base station receiver, a method of reducing multiple access interference in at least one radio frequency communications path between the base station and at least one UE, the method comprising: interleaving space-time adaptive processing (STAP) and multi-user detection (MUD) in a first plurality of stages in a base station receiver, by: at least one UE connection being characterized by a target E selecting UE connections for MUD processing by stage comprises estimating the multiple access interference contribution of each UE connection having a target E UE connections characterized by a target E