Patent ID: 8848765
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: H04B,H04J,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A receiver, comprising: a front end comprising a plurality of fingers and a finger combiner configured to combine a plurality of received signals from the plurality of fingers to produce a combined signal; a symbol estimator configured to process the combined signal to produce one or more symbol estimates; a symbol quality estimator configured to operate on the one or more symbol estimates to generate one or more symbol quality estimates based on the one or more symbol estimates; a processor configured to combine the one or more symbol estimates with the one or more symbol quality estimates to obtain a cancelation vector for at least one of a plurality of user subchannels; an interference canceller configured to cancel interference from at least one of the plurality of received signals based on the cancelation vector to produce at least one interference-cancelled signal; and a control switch configured to produce a routing decision based on estimated signal quality for each interference-cancelled signal and estimated signal quality from at least one of the plurality of received signals.