Abstract: The present invention describes a channel equalizer and a method for channel equalization in a receiver in a multi-user communication system. The method comprises the steps of receiving a signal with at least two antennas to produce at least two antenna input streams, measuring the temporal of each antenna input stream and the spatial correlation between the antenna input streams, determining a user-independent pre-equalization filter from the temporal and spatial correlation, filtering the antenna input streams with the pre-equalization filter, and finally inputting the filtered signal to a user-dependent receiver configured to detect the received data symbols of a given user.

Abstract: A method for discrimination of repetitive sequences in a wireless communication system in which the repetitive sequences have the same repetition length. For the discrimination the repetitive sequences are modified by changing the phase of at least one of the sequences. The auto-correlation values of the repetition sequences and of the modified repetitive sequences are calculated and the auto-correlation signs of the repetition sequences and of the modified sequences are compared.