Patent ID: 7376176

Claim:
A method for dynamically adjusting an average interval length of channel estimation, comprising the steps of: receiving baseband sampling signals and performing a correlation operation to estimate an instantaneous channel parameter and calculate a sliding average estimation value; selecting an effective signal arriving path and a strongest signal arriving path according to amplitude of the calculated sliding average estimation value; receiving the baseband sampling signals and performing the correlation operation to obtain a demodulation output in a RAKE demodulation and combining module; receiving the demodulation output from the RAKE demodulation and combining module and performing a hard-decision on the output from a RAKE receiver to obtain a judgment estimation value of transmitted data symbols; calculating an average level of the signals selected from the selected effective signal arriving path and the strongest signal arriving path to calculate the average level of the path signal and a detect level crossing rate; calculating noise power included in the strongest signal arriving path based on the demodulation output and the judgment estimation value of the transmitted data symbols; calculating a strongest path power estimation based on the calculated sliding average channel estimation value; dynamically adjusting the average interval length of the channel estimation by selecting an optimal average interval based on the detected level crossing rate, the calculated noise power and the calculated strongest path power estimation.