Abstract: A receiver module that is communicatively connected to a plurality of Wi-Fi receiver chains is disclosed. The receiver module is configured to selectively switch the states of a plurality of Wi-Fi receiver chains between an “ON” state and an “OFF” state based on a signal quality parameter measured by each of these receiver chains.

Abstract: A method of calculating internal signals for use in a MAP algorithm is disclosed, comprising the steps of: obtaining first decoding signals by processing received systematic and received encoded symbols of each symbol sequence of a received signal; obtaining unnormalized second decoding signals for the current symbol sequence by processing the first decoding signals of the previous sequence and second decoding signals of the previous sequence; obtaining unnormalized third decoding signals for the current symbol sequence by processing the first decoding signals of the current sequence and third decoding signals of the next sequence; normalizing the unnormalized second and third decoding signals; and wherein at least one of said second decoding signals of the previous sequence and said third decoding signals of the next sequence are unnormalised.

Abstract: A communications system employs a HARQ method and, for at least some transmission formats, incremental redundancy (IR) signals. For such formats, the multiple IR signals are derived from a single turbo encoded signal by forming multiple permutations of the encoded signal. The permutations are then converted to the coding rate of the selected transmission format. It is demonstrated by simulation that the present proposal achieves a better performance than the known HARQ techniques, while its implementation is simpler. For certain transmission formats, the transmitted signal in response to a retransmission request is identical to the first transmitted signal.

Abstract: A method of estimating the reliability of decoded message bits in a digital communications system is proposed. Message and tail bits are coded and transmitted across a communications channel. The coded message and tail bits are then decoded and it is determined that the decoded message bits have no error when the decoded tail bits have at least one error.

Abstract: Multipath interference in a received wireless signal is cancelled by generating an estimated duplicate of the interference and subtracting it from the received signal. The interference duplication is performed in a truncated manner, based on a determination of which multipath signals are present, so as to reduce the complexity and processing requirement of the interference duplication. In particular, the present invention proposed that the truncation is based on a determination of which multipath signals are present, and the properties of those signals. In a first case, the truncation is that only interference between selected pairs of paths are cancelled in MPIC. In a second case, for given pairs of paths cancellation is only performed for a subset of the chips in which the corresponding two paths can cause interference.

Abstract: A receiver for a HARQ communication system includes a buffer for storing a signal derived from a message. The signal is transmitted to the receiver at a first coding rate. The receiver also includes a decoder which accepts signals having a second coding rate, and a rate dematcher which converts signals from the first coding rate to the second coding rate. The rate dematcher is arranged to process either a combination of the received signals (in the case that the received signals are noisy versions of identical signals transmitted within the communications network) or simply the set of received signals. In either case, the dematcher forwards the results to the decoder. Provided that the second coding rate is lower than the first coding rate, the amount of memory required by the buffer is reduced by locating the buffer before the rate dematching unit.

Abstract: A method of estimating the reliability of decoded message bits in a digital communications system is proposed. Message and tail bits are coded and transmitted across a communications channel. The coded message and tail bits are then decoded and it is determined that the decoded message bits have no error when the decoded tail bits have at least one error.

Abstract: A method of calculating internal signals for use in a MAP algorithm is disclosed, comprising the steps of:

Abstract: A method of estimating fading of a modulated signal transmitted through a pilot channel using a digital filter 20 is disclosed herein.

Abstract: Multipath interference in a received wireless signal is cancelled by generating an estimated duplicate of the interference and subtracting it from the received signal. The interference duplication is performed in a truncated manner, based on a determination of which multipath signals are present, so as to reduce the complexity and processing requirement of the interference duplication. In particular, the present invention proposed that the truncation is based on a determination of which multipath signals are present, and the properties of those signals. In a first case, the truncation is that only interference between selected pairs of paths are cancelled in MPIC. In a second case, for given pairs of paths cancellation is only performed for a subset of the chips in which the corresponding two paths can cause interference.

Abstract: A receiver for a HARQ communication system includes a buffer for storing a signal derived from a message. The signal is transmitted to the receiver at a first coding rate. The receiver also includes a decoder which accepts signals having a second coding rate, and a rate dematcher which converts signals from the first coding rate to the second coding rate. The rate dematcher is arranged to process either a combination of the received signals (in the case that the received signals are noisy versions of identical signals transmitted within the communications network) or simply the set of received signals. In either case, the dematcher forwards the results to the decoder. Provided that the second coding rate is lower than the first coding rate, the amount of memory required by the buffer is reduced by locating the buffer before the rate dematching unit.

Abstract: A communications system employs a HARQ method and, for at least some transmission formats, incremental redundancy (IR) signals. For such formats, the multiple IR signals are derived from a single turbo encoded signal by forming multiple permutations of the encoded signal. The permutations are then converted to the coding rate of the selected transmission format. It is demonstrated by simulation that the present proposal achieves a better performance than the known HARQ techniques, while its implementation is simpler. For certain transmission formats, the transmitted signal in response to a retransmission request is identical to the first transmitted signal.

Abstract: A MAP decoder for decoding turbo codes obtains &lgr;-values for a series of symbols (e.g. a block of symbols or a window within a block) using a two-stage process. The series of symbols is partitioned into two sequences, which are processed in parallel. In a first phase, &agr;-values are worked out for a first of the sequences and the &bgr;-values for the second sequence. Then, in the second phase, simultaneously (i) the &bgr;-values for the first sequence are found, and used with the memorised &agr;-values to find the &lgr;-values for the first sequences, and (ii) the &agr;-values for the second sequence are found, and used with the memorised &bgr;-values for that sequence, to find the &lgr;-values for the second sequence. We also propose a turbo decoder including at least one such MAP decoder.