METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYMBOL ALIGNMENT IN DIVERSITY SIGNAL RECEPTION

摘要

Methods and apparatus taught herein provide for symbol alignment between diversity signals in a communication receiver. A method of symbol aligning diversity signals in a communication receiver comprises generating diversity sample sets for a received signal and hypothesizing two or more relative symbol alignments for the diversity sample sets. The method further includes jointly determining a preferred relative symbol alignment and a preferred synchronization position for the diversity sample sets by evaluating a function that is dependent on relative symbol alignment and synchronization position according to the hypothesized relative symbol alignments and a number of candidate synchronization positions.