Patent ID: 8446975

Claim:
An interference suppressor for suppressing at least one of inter-cell and intra-cell interference in multiple-access communication signals received by a plurality of antennas, comprising: a front-end processing module configured for generating input symbol decisions; and one or more interference suppression units configured for processing the input symbol decisions, each of the one or more interference suppression units comprising one or more of a soft-weighting module, a mixed-decision module, and a stabilizing step-size module to convert the input symbol decisions into updated symbol decisions; wherein each of the one or more interference-suppression units is configured for processing signals received by each of the plurality of antennas to produce a plurality of resolved error signals; and wherein the plurality of resolved error signals is produced by adding constituent signals for each of the plurality of antennas to corresponding scaled error signals to produce error signals for the one or more transmission sources, and resolving the error signals for the one or more transmission sources across the plurality of antennas onto the signal basis for the one or more transmission sources.