Patent ID: 8619928

Claim:
A communication receiver comprising: a short equalizer section configured to operate on a first portion of a received signal received over a channel to produce a first equalized signal and a first estimate of the channel; a channel estimator section configured to operate on the first equalized signal to produce a second equalized signal, the channel estimator section comprising a linear estimator and a non-linear estimator; a long equalizer section configured to operate on a second portion of the received signal to produce a first estimate of symbols in the received signal and a second estimate of the channel; an interference canceller section configured to operate on the first estimate of symbols in the received signal to generate a second estimate of symbols in the received signal based on, at least in part, the second estimate of the channel; an optimal timing section configured to extract timing information from the received signal; and an optimal frequency section configured to generate an estimate of a carrier frequency from the received signal.