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• the field of the invention is a reception and detection solution in a radio system. More particularly the invention relates to the observation of co- channel interferences in a receiver.
• the quality of the connection between a base transceiver station and a subscriber terminal varies all the time. This variation is caused by radio waves that are fading as a function of distance and time in a fading channel and by interfering factors on the radio path, such as other signals on the same channel.
• the same frequency must be continually used in different cells because of the limited scope of the frequency range.
• Co-channel signals usually coming from various transmitters arrive at a receiver operating at a certain frequency, which co- channel signals have propagated along various paths and which are thus mul- tipath signals. The performance of a receiver can be improved by using joint detection of the most strongest interferences.
• the performance of a receiver weakens. This is due to the fact that the receiver uses estimated channel taps of the co-channel without co-channel interference, which increases noise e.g. in the transition metrics of the trellis in a Viterbi detector, and the probability of a bit error of the detector increases.
• the terminal is sometimes in a situation with co-channel interference, whereas at other times the greatest interference is noise.
• the object of the invention is thus to provide a method and a receiver implementing the method in such a manner that the above problems can be solved.
• the invention relates to a reception method used in a radio system, in which a receiver receives signals comprising a desired signal and one or more interference signals, which desired signal and interference signals comprise a predetermined sequence, by which the signals can be separated from each other.
• a signal estimate of the de- sired signal is formed by means of the predetermined sequence of the desired signal; the most interfering interference signal is searched and a co-channel signal estimate is formed by means of the predetermined sequences of the desired signal and the interference signal; the first residual signal is formed, which describes the difference between the received signal and the signal estimate of the desired signal; the second residual signal is formed, which describes the difference between the received signal and co-channel signal estimate; the first residual signal is compared with the second residual signal and on the basis of the comparison, the received signal is detected either by one signal detection, whereby the effect of the interference signal on the desired signal is left unnoticed, or by joint detection, whereby the effect of the interference signal on the detection of the desired signal is taken into account.
• the invention also relates to a receiver for a radio system, in which signals to be received comprise a desired signal and one or more at ieast oc- casionally occurring interference signals, which desired signal and interference signal comprise a predetermined sequence, by which the signals can be separated from each other.
• the receiver of the invention is characterized in that the receiver comprises: means for searching for the most interfering interference signal; means for forming a signal estimate of the desired signal by means of the predetermined sequence of the desired signal; means for forming a co- channel signal estimate by means of the predetermined sequences of the desired signal and interference signal; means for forming the first residual signal, which describes the difference between the received signal and the signal estimate of the desired signal; means for forming the second residual signal, which describes the difference between the received signal and co-channel signal estimate; means for comparing the first residual signal with the second residual signal and for selecting for a detector on the basis of the comparison either a one signal detection or joint detection to detect the received signal.
• the method and system of the invention provide a plurality of advantages.
• the detection of a received signal improves, as the detection is suitably optimised both in the situations in which co-channel interferences occur or do not occur.
• Figure 2 shows a block diagram of a receiver using joint detection
• Figure 3 shows a block diagram of a receiver of the invention.
• the inventive solution is applicable for use in a base transceiver station and/or mobile phone.
• a normal burst of the GSM system is shown in Figure 1.
• the normal burst usually comprises about 150 symbols altogether.
• a symbol represents a bit or a combination of bits.
• Symbols of the bursts are in sequences which comprise start symbols and end symbols, i.e. edge symbols, 10, data symbol sequences 11 grouped into two parts, training symbols 12.
• symbols are bits, as usual.
• a training sequence can thus be illustrated as in Figure 1 , in which there are at the beginning of the training sequence there four guard bits 13, which are the same as the four bits at the end of the training sequence.
• guard bits of a training sequence there are typically 16 reference bits 14 in a training sequence.
• FIG. 2 A prior art system model in which co-channel interferences occur is shown in Figure 2.
• the system model comprises transmitters 200 to 202, channels 203 to 205, a noise source 206, a summer 207 connecting the channels and the noise, a receiver filter 208, a detector 209, channel estimation means 210, grouping means 211 , sequence means 212.
• a receiver 213 comprises blocks 208 to 212.
• the transmitters 200 to 202 the number of which is Q and which are base transceiver stations of the radio system, for example, transmit their own signal y K l in the channel Ch, 203 to 205, whose impulse response is described by h,. Noise n is summed to the signals y K l in the summer 207.
• the receiver 213, which may for example be a subscriber terminal, i.e. usually a mobile phone, of the radio system, receives a multipath signal by means of the receiver filter 208 typically comprising an antenna and a radio frequency filter. After the filtering, the signal y propagates both to the detection 209 and to the channel estimator 210, which makes the co-channel estimation using subsets of the predetermined sequence that have come from the grouping means 211 and the received signal y.
• the grouping means 211 form the subsets of the predetermined sequences of the information that has come from the sequence means 212.
• the detected signal propagates from the detecting means 209, e.g. a prior art Viterbi detection, to the other parts of the receiver (not shown in the figure). Interference suppression is performed in the detecting means 209, for example. This solution is described in greater detail in Finnish Patent 962736, which is taken herein as a reference.
• a predetermined sequence which is preferably characteristic of each transmitter, is transmitted along with the signal to a receiver, which may be a base transceiver station or a mobile phone.
• a base transceiver station or mobile phone can operate as a transmitter.
• the received signal comprises a desired signal, i.e. a signal that is needed to be detected, and an interference signal, e.g. other signals and noise in the same radio system.
• a training sequence of a normal burst operates preferably as a predetermined sequence in the GSM system, for example. This training sequence is used for arranging the received interference sig- nals according to interference. Interference may be due to the strength of the signal or poor cross-correlation qualities of the training sequences.
• Correlation C is calculated digitally as a cross product for known sequences X and Y in the following manner:
• C(n) corresponds to an element according to the index n in the vector C
• x(i) is an element according to the index (i), i.e. a sample in the sequence X
• y(n + i) is an element according to the index n + i, i.e. a sample in the sequence Y.
• a co-channel estimate h for the joint detection in particular is obtained from the formula:
• V is the noise covariance
• y is the received multipath propagated signal.
• M H is a Hermitian matrix of the matrix M
• V "1 refers to the inverse matrix of the matrix V.
• the noise covariance V refers to the effective value of noise.
• the noise covariance V can in turn be formed for example of two random variables r ⁇ and n 2 in the following manner:
• Equation (2) can also be written in the form
• the matrix M n is formed of predetermined sequences. It is assumed that the matrix M includes N co-channel signals and that a predetermined sequence includes P + L symbols, where L is the length of a channel memory and P is the amount of reference bits.
• the received signal y which corresponds to each predetermined sequence, has the formula:
• y Mh + n, where n represents Gaussian noise and h is the impulse response of the channel.
• N the amount of co-channel signals is preferably two, whereby the most interfering signal is searched in pairs such that one signal is the desired signal and the other signal is the interference signal.
• the channel estimation be made for two signals, for example, and 5 impulse response taps be estimated for both channels.
• the 5 taps of the channel estimator represent the 5 most important delays in the impulse response of the channel.
• a predetermined sequence e.g.
• training sequence 1 0010010111000010 training sequence 2: 00101101110111 10
• the co-channel estimation matrix M is now as follows:
• the channel estimation matrix of one channel is formed in a similar manner, but only the predetermined sequence of the desired signal is utilized thereby.
• the predetermined sequences are grouped into subsets, and the channel estimation is carried out in subsets.
• an estimate signal is formed, which is compared with the received signal, and on the basis of the comparison a subset with the greatest signal strength is found.
• This solution is described in greater detail in Finnish Patent 962736, which is taken herein as a reference.
• Another simple way to search for the strongest interference signal is to form the energy of the channel estimates for example in the following manner:
• a third possibility is to use an adapted filter, which carries out the channel estimation for all the received signals simultaneously for example in the following way:
• the strongest interference signal can be found for example by using the formula (5). Let us now take a closer look on the solution according to the invention. Let us mark the terms and results relating to the desired signal with the index 1 and the terms and results relating to the interference signal with the index 2.
• the channel estimator forms the estimates describing the channel estimate, the estimates relating both to the desired signal and to the assumed interference signal.
• the channel estimate of the desired signal has the for-
• ⁇ mula: h ., ( ho,h
• a signal, which is interfered by one dominating interference signal having a strong signal strength, can be written in the form:
• a _ j refers to data symbols of the desired signal and the dominating interference, which data symbols can be bits or bit combinations, and n k is noise.
• ⁇ ⁇ its part informs us of how close the signal estimate y 1 or y 2 is to the actual received signal y.
• the signal estimates are based on either the channel estimate of the desired signal only or the estimate that is common to the desired signal and the interference signal, the magnitude of the residual signals informs us of whether subjection to a real co-channel interfer- ence occurs or whether the greatest interference is chiefly noise. If interferences are mainly noise, co-channel detection is not worth using.
• the magnitude of the residual signals r, and r 2 can be calculated most conveniently by forming the energy of the residual signals in the following manner:
• FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of a receiver implementing the inventive method.
• An antenna 300 receives a radio frequency signal, which propagates to an RF block 302 to be scrambled from the radio frequency to a lower baseband in a known manner.
• the baseband signal is converted into digital in an A/D converter 304.
• the digital signal propagates to two different examinations, in which it is found out whether there is co-channel interference in the signal.
• a channel estimate h is formed, for example in a manner known per se by correlating the received signal and the known sequence, which is preferably a training sequence.
• the known sequence is fed to block 306 from block 308, in whose memory the known sequence is stored.
• Block 310 forms a co-channel estimation matrix M of the known sequence and the channel estimate h In these blocks (the subindex of the parameters is 1 ), the co-channel estimation matrix M., comprises only information on the desired signal and noise.
• the channel estimate h 1 is multiplied by the co-channel estimation matrix M 1 t i.e. a convolution is
• the received signal y is compared with the estimate signal y 1 .
• the comparison is made preferably as a square of the difference, whereby a residual signal r, is formed.
• the energy of the residual signal r is formed by cal- culating the sum of the elements of the residual signal vector, for example.
• the digital signal propagates to block 318, where the strongest interference signal is searched in a manner known per se.
• a co-channel estimate h 2 is formed in block 320 for example in a manner known per se by correlating the received interference signal and the known sequence, which is preferably a training sequence of the interference signal.
• the known sequence is fed to block 320 from block 322, in whose memory the known sequence is stored.
• Block 324 forms a co-channel estimation matrix M 2 from the known sequence and the co-channel estimate h 2 .
• the co-channel estimate h 2 is multiplied by the co-channel estimation matrix M 2 , i.e. a convolution is formed in block 326,
• the comparison is preferably made as a square of the difference, whereby a residual signal r 2 is formed.
• the energy of the residual signal r 2 is formed by calculating the sum of the elements of the residual signal vector, for example.
• the energies of the residual signals are compared with each other in block 332, and the detector 334 is informed according to the inventive method of whether one signal detection or co-channel detection is used.

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