METHODS AND NODES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK FOR JOINT ITERATIVE DETECTION/ESTIMATION

摘要

Receiver and method in a receiver, for iterative channel estimation and data decoding of signals received from a radio network node, located in a wireless communication network. The method comprises detecting a signal of the radio network node, performing channel estimation of the detected signal, based on iterative application of a Space Alternating Generalised Expectation and maximisation, SAGE, algorithm, determining a channel/link quality, based on the performed channel estimation and the estimated channel parameters, selecting Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output, MIMO, detector, based on the determined channel quality, determining to enable and/or disable, respectively, soft-Iterative Channel Estimation, soft-ICE, based on the determined channel quality, and iterating the performed channel estimation for a predetermined number of times.