Patent ID: 7136410

Claim:
An adaptive interference suppression receiver for a DS (Direct Sequence)/CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) communication system, which receives via a multipath fading channel a space-time block coded signal spread with another spreading code by users, and despreads the received signal, the adaptive interference suppression receiver comprising: at least two input signal generators coupled to at least two receiver antennas for signal reception, respectively, the input signal generators outputting a part of the received signals of the respective receiver antennas that has a transfer code of a corresponding coding block; adaptive filter blocks coupled to the at least two input signal generators, respectively, the adaptive filter blocks filtering a complex signal output from the input signal generators with a tap weight updated based on at least one constraint MMSE (Minimum Mean Square Error) criterion and estimating phase and amplitude components of a specific user channel using the resultant filtering output signal to generate a channel-estimated signal, the number of the adaptive filter blocks being the same as the number of multipaths per one input signal generator; a signal restorer for combining the channel-estimated signal and the filtering output signal received from the adaptive filter blocks for all multipath components and restoring an original signal that is intended to be transferred by the specific user; a signal selector for selecting either one of a known training data signal or the restored signal of the signal restorer; and error generators for comparing the channel-estimated signal and the filtering output signal received from the adaptive filter blocks with the signal from the signal selector and calculating an error between the two signals for update of a tap weight in the adaptive filter blocks, the number of the error generators being the same as the number of the adaptive filter blocks.