Patent ID: 8503591

Claim:
A method for suppressing interference in a wireless communication, comprising the steps of: receiving a burst of symbols; generating a plurality of timing hypotheses for the burst of symbols using a set of known reference symbols and a first subset of the burst of symbols in a channel input configuration, wherein generating the plurality of timing hypotheses comprises estimating a position of a reference symbol in the burst of symbols and selecting the first subset of a first burst of symbols from symbols centered around the estimated position; for each timing hypothesis, determining a cost of the timing hypothesis by applying a cost function to an estimated set of reference symbols, wherein the cost function comprises comparing the estimated set of reference symbols with the known set of reference symbols to determine an estimation error; calculating, using one or more processors, a plurality of weights for an interference suppression filter based upon a minimum cost associated with the plurality of timing hypotheses; filtering the first subset of the burst of symbols using the interference suppression filter with the corresponding plurality of weights to produce a set of symbol streams; selecting one of the plurality of timing hypotheses corresponding to a selection criteria based on the determined estimation error; equalizing and decoding a full set of symbol streams without a channel estimation input based upon the selected one of the plurality of timing hypotheses; and feeding back the output of the equalizing as a reference via a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) iteration to obtain optimum burst timing for a second subset of the burst of symbols.