Patent ID: 7545893

Claim:
A method for interference rejection in a wireless communication system, comprising: determining a complement spatial-temporal signal subspace that is complement to a spatial-temporal signal subspace of an interference signal included in a received signal; and projecting the received signal onto the complement spatial-temporal signal subspace, whereby the interference signal included in the received signal is reduced, wherein determining the complement spatial-temporal signal subspace comprises: estimating the interference signal; determining a Block Yule-Walker matrix for the estimated interference signal; and determining the complement spatial-temporal signal subspace from the Block Yule-Walker matrix, wherein determining the complement spatial-temporal signal subspace from the Block Yule-Walker matrix comprises: determining eigenvalues and corresponding eigenvectors of the Block Yule-Walker matrix; and determining the complement spatial-temporal signal subspace as a subspace spanned by the eigenvectors corresponding to a number, L, of the smallest absolute eigenvalues, and wherein the method further comprises: sorting the eigenvalues in a descending order to produce a sorted eigenvalues vector; and calculating a center of gravity of the sorted eigenvalues vector, wherein projecting the received signal onto the complement spatial-temporal signal subspace is performed only if the center of gravity is smaller than a predefined threshold.