Patent ID: 8145163

Claim:
A method of detecting a received signal at a receiving side in a communication system, the method comprising: comparing signal quality relevant information of the received signal to a prescribed reference value; selecting a pre-processing scheme to be applied to the received signal based on a result of the comparing; pre-processing the received signal based on the selected pre-processing scheme; and detecting the pre-processed signal, wherein the step of selecting comprises: selecting a first pre-processing scheme when the signal quality relevant information of the received signal is the same as or larger than the prescribed reference value, and selecting a second pre-processing scheme when the signal quality relevant information of the received signal is smaller than the prescribed reference value, wherein the step of pre-processing comprises: performing a channel compensation for the received signal, and normalizing the channel compensated received signal using a channel power component if the first pre-processing scheme is selected or using a channel amplitude component if the second pre-processing scheme is selected.