Demodulator for digital communication systems

摘要

The present invention is a method and an apparatus for demodulating a signal received over a propagation channel. The received signal includes a synchronizing signal and is formed by one or more rays including a dominant ray. The method comprises the following: (a) generating a multi-path intensity profile of the propagation channel from the received signal; (b) determining an arrival time of the dominant ray and a propagation channel response corresponding to the arrival time based on the multi-path intensity profile; (c) decimating the received signal synchronously with the arrival time of the dominant ray to provide signal samples to an equalizer; (d) configuring the equalizer based on the multi-path intensity profile to deactivate some of the coefficients of the equalizer; (e) initializing the active coefficients of the equalizer based on the propagation channel response; (f) updating the active coefficients of the equalizer; and (g) equalizing the received signal using the equalizer to produce a filtered signal.