Abstract: A receiver is configured for canceling intra-cell and inter-cell interference in coded, multiple-access, spread-spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequency-selective communication channels. The receiver employs iterative symbol-estimate weighting, subtractive cancellation with a stabilizing step-size, and mixed-decision symbol estimates. Receiver embodiments may be implemented explicitly in software or programmed hardware, or implicitly in standard Rake-based hardware either within the Rake (i.e., at the finger level) or outside the Rake (i.e., at the user or subchannel symbol level).

Abstract: The receiver includes a Rake receiver for separating a received signal into multipath components, an interference selector for selecting interference symbols corresponding to interfering paths and subchannels, a synthesizer for synthesizing an interference signal from selected paths and estimated subchannel symbols, and a canceller for constructing a projection operator or a scale-invariant subtraction operator to cancel selected interference in multipath components of the received signal, or from the received signal itself. The interference canceller may use a sequence of symbol estimates to simultaneously cancel inter-channel interference and inter-symbol interference. Interference cancellers may be placed at one or more locations within the receiver chain.

Abstract: A receiver produces optimal weights for cancelling multipath interference. An SINR measurement module generates SINR measurements corresponding to soft symbol estimates produced by a baseband receiver from a received multipath signal. Each soft symbol estimate is replaced with either a hard estimate or a weighted soft estimate based on how each corresponding SINR measurement compares to a predetermined threshold. The received multipath signal and estimated interference signals generated from the hard symbol estimates and/or the weighted soft symbol estimates are combined to produce interference cancelled signals that may be combined via maximum ratio combining to produce an interference-cancelled MRC signal.

Abstract: An interference canceller comprises a composite interference vector (CIV) generator configured to produce a CIV by combining soft and/or hard estimates of interference, an interference-cancelling operator configured for generating a soft-projection operator, and a soft-projection canceller configured for performing a soft projection of the received baseband signal to output an interference-cancelled signal. Weights used in the soft-projection operator are selected to maximize a post-processing SINR.

Abstract: Interference cancellation for CDMA handsets comprises projecting a received signal onto a subspace that is substantially orthogonal to an interference subspace. Selection of the interference subspace includes extracting at least one interfering signal from the received signal. Interference selection may include calculating a signal-power threshold from which the presence or absence of interfering channels is determined. Receiver embodiments are configured for transmit and receive diversity.

Abstract: Interference is cancelled from a baseband signal by synthesizing interference from estimated symbols in interfering subchannels. The estimated symbols are hard-coded, soft weighted, or zeroed, depending on the value of an estimated pre-processed signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR) in each subchannel in order to maximize a post-processed SINR. The estimated pre-processed SINR is obtained from averages of estimated symbol energies and estimated noise variances, or from related statistical procedures.

Abstract: A multi-mode receiver includes a channel decomposition module (e.g., a Rake receiver) for separating a received signal into multipath components, an interference selector for selecting interfering paths and subchannels, a synthesizer for synthesizing interference signals from selected subchannel symbol estimates, and an interference canceller for cancelling selected interference in the received signal. At least one of the channel decomposition module, the synthesizer, and the interference canceller are configurable for processing multi-mode signals.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates keeping track of memory usage of tasks in a shared heap without performing a full garbage-collection operation. The system operates by determining a memory usage by each task in a young generation of the shared heap. Once the memory usage for each task has been determined, the system then adds the memory usage for each task in the young generation of the shared heap to a global memory usage for each task (obtained during a preceding full garbage-collection operation) to produce an actual memory usage for each task.

Abstract: Interference cancellation is performed in a CDMA receiver by projecting a received signal onto a subspace that is orthogonal to a signal selected for removal. An interference matrix or a combined interference vector is used to construct an interference-canceling projection operator. Confidence weights may be provided to components of the interference matrix or the interference vector based on estimation errors or relative strengths of interfering signals. Complexity reduction of the orthogonal projection operator may be achieved by providing for simplifying approximations that remove terms and operations. A linear transformation operator may be applied to the rows and/or columns of the interference matrix or the interference vector prior to construction of the orthogonal projection.