Patent ID: 7319727
Filing Date: 2008-01-15
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for the reception of a multicarrier signal formed by a plurality of carrier frequencies, the method comprising: receiving the multicarrier signal carrying source data, implementing at least two reception channels each supplied with said multicarrier signal, determining information on absolute channel confidence for each of said channels, and associating, in each of said channels and with each piece of source data received, an estimated value of said piece of source data and corresponding information on absolute channel confidence, to feed a module configured to combine source data to provide total data for a decoder configured to decode said total data, wherein said information on absolute confidence takes account firstly of information on total confidence, representing a quality of reception on said channel relative to at least one other channel, and secondly of information on relative confidence, representing the quality of reception of the concerned source data in said channel, relative to at least one other piece of source data received on the same channel.