METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING REPEATED BURSTS IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION

摘要

The reception of repeated bursts of identical information in a radio communications system is made faster and more secure by a receiving unit comprising means for receiving and processing incoming signals from a transmitting unit in the same radio communications system, buffer means for temporarily storing repeated bursts and means for equalizing and combining at least two of the repeated bursts. In a preferred embodiment, the receiving unit also comprises (for diversity) duplicated receiving means for receiving signals from two different antennas and equalizing and combining means for equalizing and combining the signals received by the duplicated receiving means. The receiving unit may be located in a radio base station or in a radio terminal in a radio communications system. The repeated bursts are received and stored in buffers, before the information of at least two repeated bursts is equalized and combined to form a more reliable signal.