Methods, receiver devices and systems for whitening a signal disturbance in a communication signal

摘要

Methods, systems and receiver devices are provided which may reduce the average power of a signal disturbance by whitening the signal disturbance. In one aspect, a finite impulse response filter (FIR) is provided which whitens the signal disturbance by filtering a downsampled received signal using filter coefficients adaptively established using known signal information in each signal burst of the received signal. Alternatively, a noise-whitening equalizer is utilized having a modified metric that whitens the signal disturbance again using coefficients adaptively established using known signal information in each signal burst of the received signal. The noise-whitening equalizer approach further allows the noise-whitening coefficients to be updated by treating symbol estimates from the equalizer as known signal information to generate updated noise-whitening coefficients. A novel receiver containing a modified Euclidean metric equalizer to provide noise-whitening is also provided.