Patent ID: 8787429

Claim:
A communication system for repeating wireless signals, the system comprising: a donor antenna; a coverage antenna; and processing circuitry including an equalizer, the processing circuitry being operatively coupled to the donor and coverage antennas for receiving a wireless signal that is exposed to a transmission channel and processing the wireless signal through the equalizer to generate a processed signal for retransmission through one of the donor or coverage antennas; the equalizer including a plurality of coefficients that may be adjusted with the processing circuitry to adapt the equalizer to address at least one characteristic of the transmission channel experienced by the wireless signal; the processing circuitry further configured for comparing a bit sequence of the received and processed wireless signal to a known bit sequence of the wireless signals handled by the communication system and configured for adjusting the equalizer coefficients to minimize a difference between the bit sequence of the processed wireless signal and the known bit sequence of the wireless signals.