Method and apparatus for estimating noise power per subcarrier in a multicarrier system

摘要

Noise power is estimated for subcarriers in a multicarrier system by first decoding a received multicarrier signal and then using the decoded signal information and the received signal information to perform the estimation. Soft decision or hard decision decoding may be used. In at least one embodiment, channel estimates are also made using the decoded signal information and the received signal information.