Abstract: An apparatus and method for improving a HARQ combining gain in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a seed information generator and a subcarrier allocator. The seed information generator randomly generates a seed value for changing a channel of a subcarrier and an interference pattern in a frame unit when a HARQ combining gain is not generated because an interference pattern is the same during a retransmission period. The subcarrier allocator allocates a subcarrier using the generated seed value.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for raising a data throughput by dynamically changing the maximum number of iterative decoding times of an iteratively decodable code in a mobile communication system are provided. The apparatus includes an early stop controller for determining whether an early stop condition is satisfied during a decoding process according to a maximum number of the iterative decoding times, a Connection IDentifier (CID) controller for detecting a CID of a Media Access Control (MAC) header after the early stop, and an iteration controller for, when determining that a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) is allocated to the receiver apparatus by detecting the CID of the MAC header, resetting the maximum number of iterative decoding times after identifying a decoding block of a next PDU, and for, when the CID is not detected, resetting the maximum number of the iterative decoding times after identifying a next decoding block of the current PDU.

Abstract: A rake reception apparatus for determining whether a paging channel is received in a mobile terminal using a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mode. A searcher searches for a multi-path signal using a received signal output from a Radio Frequency (RF) part, and calculates an energy value for each hypothesis. A demodulator demodulates a Paging Indicator (PI) for a hypothesis for which an energy value calculated by the searcher exceeds a valid path threshold. A controller determines whether a paging channel is received, according to the demodulated signal output from the demodulator, and performs finger allocation using a multi-path search of the searcher if it is determined that the paging channel is transmitted.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for estimating a channel in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a subcarrier demapper for extracting pilot symbols at preset positions for a channel estimation; and a channel estimator for acquiring channel estimate values of subcarriers through an Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filtering using the pilot symbols provided from the subcarrier demapper and a preset filter factor. Thus, the channel condition can be estimated by taking into account the channel change.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for improving a HARQ combining gain in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a seed information generator and a subcarrier allocator. The seed information generator randomly generates a seed value for changing a channel of a subcarrier and an interference pattern in a frame unit when a HARQ combining gain is not generated because an interference pattern is the same during a retransmission period. The subcarrier allocator allocates a subcarrier using the generated seed value.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for raising a data throughput by dynamically changing the maximum number of iterative decoding times of an iteratively decodable code in a mobile communication system are provided. The apparatus includes an early stop controller for determining whether an early stop condition is satisfied during a decoding process according to a maximum number of the iterative decoding times, a Connection IDentifier (CID) controller for detecting a CID of a Media Access Control (MAC) header after the early stop, and an iteration controller for, when determining that a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) is allocated to the receiver apparatus by detecting the CID of the MAC header, resetting the maximum number of iterative decoding times after identifying a decoding block of a next PDU, and for, when the CID is not detected, resetting the maximum number of the iterative decoding times after identifying a next decoding block of the current PDU.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for estimating a channel in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system is provided. The apparatus and method includes estimating a channel corresponding to a pilot of a received signal, performing a first estimation on a data channel by performing time-domain linear interpolation on pilots of previous and next symbols of the pilot using the channel estimate, performing Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filtering on the channel estimate and the data channel estimate of the pilots of the previous and next symbols of the pilot, and performing a second estimation on the data channel by performing frequency-domain linear interpolation on a remaining zone which excludes the pilot and the zone that underwent the first estimation.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for estimating a channel in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a subcarrier demapper for extracting pilot symbols at preset positions for a channel estimation; and a channel estimator for acquiring channel estimate values of subcarriers through an Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filtering using the pilot symbols provided from the subcarrier demapper and a preset filter factor. Thus, the channel condition can be estimated by taking into account the channel change.

Abstract: A rake reception apparatus for determining whether a paging channel is received in a mobile terminal using a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mode. A searcher searches for a multi-path signal using a received signal output from a Radio Frequency (RF) part, and calculates an energy value for each hypothesis. A demodulator demodulates a Paging Indicator (PI) for a hypothesis for which an energy value calculated by the searcher exceeds a valid path threshold. A controller determines whether a paging channel is received, according to the demodulated signal output from the demodulator, and performs finger allocation using a multi-path search of the searcher if it is determined that the paging channel is transmitted.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for receiving a signal transmitted through a multi-path in a wireless communication system, and more particularly an apparatus and method for removing a fake path detected by the ripple of a baseband pulse shaping filter to detect the position of an effective multi-path signal in a direct sequence Code Division Multiple Access system. The method for detecting a fake path in a user equipment in a mobile communication system includes detecting peak indexes and peak energies of peaks of signals received from node B, performing a fake path check with respect to the peaks based on the peak indexes and peak energies, and allocating fingers to peaks which have been determined not to be caused by a fake path as a result of the fake path check.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating a code after a random time in a communication system using an n-stage Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) are provided. The method includes expressing an element indicating the current state value of the LFSR in a finite field GF(2n), performing a 2r-th power operation and a multiply operation with respect to the characteristic polynomial using the LFSR when n=rs in the GF(2n), and repeating the 2r-th power operation and the multiply operation s times to calculate a new state value of the LFSR after the random time, thereby generating the code.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for generating a code by quickly computing a state of a Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) in a mobile communication system, in which a code for the communication system is generated including an n-stage LFSR and operating in sleep mode and active mode set at a preset time interval from the sleep mode. Current state values of the LFSR are combined with n different mask patterns such that the current state values are shifted by {20,21, . . . ,2n?1}. A combination result is provided as a new state value of the LFSR at an arbitrary time variably set in the sleep mode. To transform a current state value of the LFSR to a new state value after an arbitrary time, the code generation method employs a square and multiply algorithm without use of mask patterns.