Patent ID: 8098767

Claim:
A method for operating a receiver in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a frame including a plurality of time slots, each time slot of the plurality of time slots comprising two half-slots, each half-slot comprising two traffic segments and a pilot burst between the two traffic segments, wherein the plurality of time slots comprises a first half-slot and a second half-slot following the first half-slot, the first half-slot comprising a first pilot burst and a first traffic segment following the first pilot burst, the second half-slot comprising a second traffic segment and a second pilot burst following the second traffic segment; dividing the first and second traffic segments into a plurality of sub-segments, the plurality of sub-segments comprising a first sub-segment and a second sub-segment following the first sub-segment; training an equalizer of the receiver on the first pilot burst to obtain a first plurality of trained tap coefficients; training the equalizer of the receiver on the second pilot burst to obtain a second plurality of trained tap coefficients; interpolating between the first and the second pluralities of trained tap coefficients to obtain a first set of interpolated tap coefficients for the first sub-segment; measuring signal to interference and noise ratio of the first pilot burst to obtain a first measured SINR; measuring signal to interference and noise ratio of the second pilot burst to obtain a second measured SINR; interpolating between the first measured SINR and the second measured SINR to obtain a first interpolated SINR for the first sub-segment; equalizing the first sub-segment by using the first set of interpolated tap coefficients; scaling a result of equalizing the first sub-segment by the first interpolated SINR to obtain a first set of scaled data; and decoding the first sub-segment using the first set of scaled data.