Method and apparatus for regenerative based interference cancellation within a communication system

摘要

Interference cancellation (IC) is performed in a communication system. A signal received at an antenna sample buffer (110) of a receiver (100) is provided to rake fingers (122 A-J) of rake receivers (120 A-K) associated with system users (A-K). The signals produced by rake fingers (122) are provided to regeneration-factor processors (126) of rake receiver processors (125) which determine a set of regeneration factors associated with the users and based on the received signal. A frequency range associated with a first user from the users has at least a portion overlapping with at least a portion of a frequency range associated with a second user from the users. A time range associated with the first user from the users has at least a portion overlapping with at least a portion of a time range associated with the second user from the users. A regenerated signal associated with each user is produced by a user-contribution received-signal regenerator (127) and the regeneration-factor produced by the regeneration-factor processor (126). The regenerated signal is provided to a modified-signal generator (128), where it is modified based on the determined regenerated factor associated with that user to produce a modified regenerated signal for each user. An interference signal associated with a particular user is estimated by an interference estimator (130), which receives the modified regenerated signals from the particular user rake receiver (120), as well as from the other rake receivers (120) associated with the other users.