Title of Invention

"MULTI-USER DETECTION USING AN ADAPTIVE COMBINATION OF JOINT DETECTION AND SUCCESSIVE INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION"

Abstract A time division duplex communication system using code division multiple access transmits a plurality of data signals over a shared spectrum in a time slot, A combined signal is received over the shared spectrum in the time slot. The plurality of data signals are grouped into a plurality of groups. The combined signal is matched filtered based on in part symbol responses associated with the data signals of one of the groups. Data from each data signal in the one group is jointly detected. An interference signal is constructed based on in based on in part the one group detected data. The constructed interference signal is subtracted from the combined signal. Date from the other groups is detected by processing the subtracted signal.
Full Text MULTI-USER DETECTION USING AN ADAPTIVE COMBINATION OF JOINT DETECTION AND SUCCESSIVE INTERFACE CANCELLATION
Background Of the Invention Field of invention
The invention generally relates to wireless communication systems. In particular, the invention relates to joint detection of multiple user signals in a wireless communication system.
Description of Prior Art
Figure 1 is an illustration of a wireless communication system 10. The communication system 10 has base stations 121 to 125 which communicate with user equipments (UEs) 14, to 143. Each base station 12| has an associated operational area where it communicates with UEs 141 to 141 in its operational area.
In some communication systems, such as code division multiple access (CDMA) and time division duplex using code division multiple access (TDD/CDMA), multiple communications are sent over the same frequency spectrum. These communications are typically differentiated by their chip code sequences. To more efficiently use the frequency spectrum, TDD/CDMA communication systems use repeating frames divided into time slots for communication. A communication sent in such a system will have one or multiple associated chip codes and time slots assigned to it based on the communication's bandwidth.
Since multiple communications may be sent in the same frequency spectrum and at the same time, a receiver in such a system must distinguish between the multiple communications. One approach to detecting such signals is matched filtering. In matched filtering, a communication sent with a single code is detected. Other communications are treated as interference. To detect multiple codes, a respective number of matched filters are used. Another approach is successive interference cancellation (SIC). In SIC, one communication is detected and the contribution of that communication is subtracted from the received signal for use in detecting the next communication.
In some situations, it is desirable to be able to detect multiple communications simultaneously in order to improve performance. Detecting multiple communications simultaneously is referred to as joint detection. Some joint detectors use Cholesky decomposition to perform a minimum mean square error. (MMSE) detection and zero-forcing block equalizers (ZF-BLEs). These detectors have a high complexity requiring extensive receiver resources.
The U.S Patent No. 5,933,423 discloses a receiver. The receiver divides the received signals into several group having at least two signals. Signals in each group are detected simultaneously. The detected signal of a first group are subtracted from the received signals prior to detection of data from other groups.
DE 19616828 Al discloses a receiver having a signal separator. Signals are grouped by received power. A first group of signals are jointly detected. The detected first group signals are subtracted from the received signals. The remaining signals are detected from the subtracted signal.
Accordingly, it is desirable to have alternate approaches to multi-user detection.
Summary of the Invention
A time division duplex communication system using code division multiple access transmits a plurality of data signals over a shared spectrum in a time slot. A combined signal is received over the shared spectrum in the time slot. The plurality of data signals are grouped into a plurality of groups. The combined signal is matched filtered based on in part symbol responses associated with the data signals of one of the groups. Data from each data signal in the one group is jointly detected. An interference signal is constructed based on in part the one group detected data. The constructed interference signal is subtracted from the combined signal. Data from the other groups is detected by processing the subtracted signal.
Statement of Invention
The invention provides joint detection of multiple user signal in a time division duplex communication system using code division multiple access. At receiving unit radio frequency signals are received at an antenna and a demodulator converts the radio frequency signals into base band signals. A channel estimation device at receiving unit is for estimating a channel response for the bursts. The first circuit at receiving unit is capable of jointly detecting data of a group of the received signals constructing a interference signal and subtracting the interference signal from received signals. Series of other circuits successively repeating joint detection interference construction and subtracting. In this manner number of data signals are processed by each of the first and other circuits.
Brief Description of The Accompanying Drawings
Figure I is a wireless communication system. :
Figure 2 is a simplified transmitter and a receiver using joint detection.
Figure 3 is an illustration of a communication burst.
Figure 4 is a flow chart of adaptive combination of joint detection and successive
interference cancellation.
Figure 5 is an illustration of an adaptive combination of joint detection and successive
interference cancellation device.
Figures 6-12 are graphs comparing the performance of adaptive combination of joint
detection and successive interference cancellation, full joint detection and a RAKE
receiver.
Detailed Description of The Preferred Embodiment
Figure 2 illustrates a simplified transmitter 26 and receiver 28 using an adaptive combination of joint detection (JD) and successive interference cancellation (SIC), "S1C-JD", in a TDD/CDMA communication system. In a typical system, a transmitter 26 is in each UE 141 to 141 and multiple transmitting circuits 26 sending multiple communications are in each base station 121 to 1245A base station 12| will typically require at least one transmitting circuit 26 for each actively communicating UE 14, to 143. The SK'-JD receiver 28 may be at a base station 121, UEs 141 to 143 or both. The SIC_JD receiver 28 receives communications from multiple transmitters 26 or transmitting circuits 26.
Each transmitter 26 sends data over a wireless radio channel 30. A data generator 32 in the transmitter 26 generates data to be communicated over a reference channel to a receiver 28. Reference data is assigned to one or multiple codes and/or time slots based on the communications bandwidth requirements. A modulation and spreading device 34 spreads the reference data and makes the spread reference data lime-multiplexed with a training sequence in the appropriate assigned time slots and codes. The resulting sequence is referred to as a communication burst. The communication burst is modulated by a modulator 36 to radio frequency. An antenna
38 radiates the RF signal through the wireless radio channel 30 to an antenna 40 of the receiver 28. The type of modulation used for the transmitted communication can he any of those known to those skilled in the art such as direct phase shift keying (DPSK) or quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK).
A typical communication burst 16 has a midamble 20, a guard period 18 and two data bursts 22,24, as shown in Figure 3. The midamble 20 separates the two data bursts 22. 24 and the guard period 18 separates the communication bursts to allow for the difference in arrival times of bursts transmitted from different transmitters. The two data bursts 22,24 contain the communication burst's data and are typically the same symbol length. The midamble contains a training sequence.
The antenna 40 of the receiver 28 receives various radio frequency signals. The received signals are demodulated by a demodulator 42 to produce a baseband signal. The baseband signal is processed, such as by a channel estimation device 44 and a SIC-JD device 46 in the time slots and with the appropriate codes assigned to the communication bursts of the corresponding transmitters 26. The channel estimation device 44 uses the training sequence component in the baseband signal to provide channel information such as channel impulse responses. The channel inlonnation is used by the SIC-JD device 46 to estimate the transmitted data of the received communication bursts as hard symbols.
The SIC-JD device 46 uses the channel information provided by the channel estimation device 44 and the known spreading codes used by the transmitters 26 to estimate the data of the various received communication bursts. Although SIC-JD is described in conjunction with a TDD/CDMA communication system the same approach is applicable to other communication systems such as CDMA.
One approach to SIC-JD in a particular time slot in a TDD/CDMA communication
system is illustrated in Figure 4. A number of communication bursts are
superimposed on each other in the particular time slot, such as K communication
bursts. The K bursts may be from K different transmitters. If certain transmitters are
using multiple codes in the particular time slot, the K bursts may be from less than K
transmitters.
Each data burst 22, 24 of the communication burst 16 has a predefined number of transmitted symbols, such as N5. Each symbol is transmitted using a predetermined number of chips of the spreading code, which is the spreading factor (SF). In a typical TDD communication system, each base station 121, to 125 has an associated scrambling code mixed with its communicated data. The scrambling code distinguishes the base stations from one another. Typically, the scrambling code does not affect the spreading factor. Although the terms spreading code and factor are used hereafter, for systems using scrambling codes, the spreading code for the following is the combined scrambling and spreading codes. As a result, each data burst 22, 24 has Ns x SF chips. After passing through a channel having an impulse response of W chips, each received burst has a length of SF x Ns+ W -1, which is also represented as NL chips. The code for a kth burst of the K bursts is represented by C"(k>
Each kth burst is received at the received and can be represented by Equation I.
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rth is the received contribution of the kth burst. A (k) is the combined channel response, being an Nc x NN matrix. Each j' column in A( ' is a zero-padded version of tile symbol response S(k) of the jth element of d(k) The symbol response S(k) is the convolution of the estimated response h(k) and spreading code C(k) for the burst d(k| is the unknown data symbols transmitted in the burst. The estimated response for each kth burst, h(k), has a length W chips and can be represent by Equation 2.

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y lk) reflects the transmitter gain and/or path loss h/0 represents the burst-specific fading channel response or for a group of bursts experiencing a similarly channel. hrfe) represents the group-specific channel response. For uplink communications, each J^1" as well as each y (k) and h *' are distinct. For the downlink, all of the bursts have the same h_ The overall received vector from all K bursts sent over the wireless channel is per Equation 3.
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mean noise vector.
By combining the A(k) for all data bursts into matrix A and all the unknown data for each burst d(k) into matrix d, Equation 1 becomes Equation 4.
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SIC-JD determines the received power of each kth burst. This determination may he based on apriori knowledge at the receiver 28, burst-specific channel estimation from a burst-specific training sequence, or a bank of matched filters. The K bursts are arranged in descending order based on the determined received power.
Bursts having roughly the same power level, such as within a certain threshold, arc grouped together and are arranged into G groups, 48. The G groups are arranged into descending order by their power, such as from group 1 to G with group I having the
highest received power. Figure 5 is an illustration of a SIC-JD device 46 performing SIC-JD based on the G groups.
For the group with the,highest received power, group 1. the symbol response matrix for only the bursts in group 1. Ag(l), is determined. Ag(l). contains only the symbol responses of the bursts in group I. The received vector r , is modeled for group I as Xg(1)- As a result. Equation 4 becomes Equation 5 for group I.
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dg(1) is the data in the bursts of group I. Equation 5 addresses both the effects of inter symbol interference (IS1) and multiple access interference (MAI). As a result, the effects of the other groups, groups 2 to G, are ignored.
The received vector, Xg(l) , is matched filtered to the symbol responses of the bursts in group 1 by a group 1 matched filter 66|, such as per Equation 6,50.
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Yg(1) is the matched filtered result.
A joint detection is performed on group I by a group I joint detection device 68, to make a soft decision estimate of d (1) g.soft using matched filtered result Yg(1). One JD approach is to compute the least-squares, zero-forcing, solution of Equation 7.
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Ag (l) is the hermetian of Ag (l). Another JD approach is to compute the minimum mean square error solution (MMSE) as per Equation 8.
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Equation 8 . is the Identity matrix and o2 is the standard deviation.
One advantage to performing joint detection on only a group of bursts is that the complexity of analyzing a single group versus all the signals is reduced. Since Ag(1) and Ag (1) are banded block Toeplitz matrices, the complexity in solving either Equation 7 or 8 is reduced. Additionally, Cholesky decomposition may be employed with a negligible loss in performance. Cholesky decomposition performed on a large number of bursts is extremely complex. However, on a smaller group of users. C'holesky decomposition can be performed at a more reasonable complexity.
The soft decisions, d(l)g.SOft are converted into hard decision, d(l)g.hard by soft to hard decision block 70| as the received data for group 1, 54. To process the other weaker groups, the multiple access interference caused by group 1 onto the weaker groups is estimated by a group I interference construction block 721 using Equation 9, 56.
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I(1) is the estimated contribution of group 1 to r
For the next group 2. the estimated contribution of group I is removed from the received vector, Xg(1) to produce X.g(2) , such as by a subtracter 741, as per Equation 10.58.
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As a result multiple access interference from group 1 is effectively canceled from the received signal. The next strongest group, group 2. is processed similarly using Xg(2), with group 2 matched filter 662, group 2 ill block 682, soft to hard
decision block 702 and group
interference construction block 12^. 60. The constructed group 2 interference, if(2) , is subtracted.
such as by subtractor 242, from the interference cancelled signal for group 2Xg(2) - r (2) = Xg(3). 62. Using this procedure, each group is successively processed until the final group G. Since group G is the last group, the interference construction does not need to be performed. Accordingly, group G is only processed with group G matched filter 66G. group G JD block 680 and soft to hard decisions block 70c. to recovery the hard symbols, 64.
When S1C-JD is performed at a UE 14|. it may not be necessary to process all of the groups. If all of the bursts that the UE 14] is intended to receive are in the highest received power group or in higher received power groups, the UE 14| will only have lo process the groups having its bursts. As a result, the processing required at the UE 14| can be further reduced. Reduced processing at the UE 14| results in reduced power consumption and extended battery life.
SIC-JD is less complex than a single-step ill due to the dimension NC x K . Ns matrix being replaced with G JD stages of dimension Nc x nj. Ns. where i= 1 to G. n1 is the number of bursts in the ith group. The complexity of JD is proportional to the square to cube of the number of bursts being jointly detected.
An advantage of this approach is that a trade-off between computational complexity and performance can be achieved. If all of the bursts are placed in a single group, the solution reduces lo a ill problem. The single grouping can be achieved by either forcing all the bursts into one group or using a broad threshold. Alternately, if the groups contain only one signal or only one signal is received, the solution reduces to a S1C-LSE problem. Such a situation could result using a narrow threshold or forcing each burst into its own group, by hard limiting the group size.
By selecting the thresholds, an optional tradeoff between performance and complexity can be achieved.
Figures 6 to 12 are simulation results that compare the bit error rate (BER)
performance of SIC-JD to full JD and RAKE-like receivers under various multi-path
fading channel conditions. The parameters chosen are those of the 3G UTRA TDD
CDMA system: SF = 61 and W = 57. Each TDD burst/time-slot is 2560 chips or 667
microseconds long. The bursts carry two data fields with Ns QPSK symbols each, a
rnidamble field and a guard period. Each simulation is run over 1000 timeslots. In all
cases the number of bursts, K is chosen to be 8. All receivers are assumed to have
exact knowledge of the channel response of each burst, which is used to perfectly
rank and group the bursts. The channel response is assumed to be time-invariant over
a time-slot, but successive time-slots experience uncorrelated channel responses. No
channel coding was applied in the simulation. The JD algorithm jointly detects all K
bursts. The RAKE-
like receiver was a bank matched fillers ,d(l) = A(i)" r.(1) for an ith hurst's code. The ma:ximal ratio combiner (MRC) stage is implicit in these filters because they are matched to the entire symbol-response.
The performance was simulated under fading channels with multi-path profiles defined by the ITU channel models, such as the Indoor A, Pedestrian A. Vehicular A models, and the 3GPP UTRA TDD Working Group 4 Case 1, Case 2 and Case 3 models. In Vehicular A and Case 2 channels, the SIC-JD suffered a degradation of up to I decibel (dB) as compared to the full ill in the 1% to 10% BER range. For all other channels, the SIC-JD performance was within 0.5 dB of that of the full JD. Since Vehicular A and Case 2 represent the worst -case amongst all cases studied, only the performance plots are shown. Amongst all channels simulated, Vehicular A and Case 2 have the largest delay spread. Vehicular A is a six tap model with relative

delays of 0. 310,710, 1090, 1730 and 2510 nanoseconds and relative average powers of 0. -1, -9. -10, -15 and -20 decibels (dB). Case 2 is a 3m tap model, all with the same average power and with relative delays of 0, 976 and 1200 nanoseconds.
Figures 6 and 7 compare the bit error rate (BER) vs. the chip-level signal noise ratio
(SNR) performance of the SIC-LSE receiver with the full JD and RAKE-like
receivers under two multi-path fading channel conditions. The group size is forced to
he I. to form K groups, both, at the transmitter and receiver. The theoretical binary
phase shift keying (BPSK) BER in an additive white gaussian noise (AWGNj channel
thai provides a lower bound to the BER is also shown. The BER is averaged over all
bursts. Figure 6 represents the distinct channel case wherein each burst is assumed to
pass through an independently fading channel but all channels have the same average
power leading to the same average SNR. Thus, in this case, h(1)) i=l...K are distinct
while Y(i) i =1...K are all equal. Such a situation exists in the uplink where the power
control compensates for long-term fading and/or path-loss but not for short-term
lading. Al each time-slot, the bursts were arranged in power based upon the
associated h(1) . i = \. K. Figure 7 shows similar plots for the common channel case.
All bursts are assumed to pass through the same multi-path channel, i.e., h (i) i = I.. .K
and are all equal, but with different Y(i) -J...K The 8(l) are chosen such that
neighboring burst have a power separation of 2 dB when arranged by power level. Such difference in power can exist, for instance, in the downlink where the base station 121. applies different transmit gains to bursts targeted for different UEs 14| to 141. Figures 6 and 7 show that in the range of 1% to 10% bit error rate ( raw BER), the SIC-LSE suffers a degradation of less than 1 dB as compared to the JD. This is often the range of interest for the uncoded BER (raw BER). The RAKE receiver exhibits significant degradation, since it does not optimally handle the ISI. As the power differential between bursts increases, the performance of SIC-LSE improves.
Depending upon the channel, a power separation of 1 to 2 dB is sufficient to achieve a performance comparable to that of the full JD.
Figures 8, 9, 10 and 11 compare the BER vs. SNR performance of the SIC-JD receiver with the full JD and RAKE-like receivers under two multi-path fading channels. The 8 codes are divided into 4 groups of 2 codes each at the transmitter and receiver. The BER is averaged over all bursts. Figures 8 and 9 represent the distinct channel case wherein different groups are assumed to pass through independently fading channels. However, all channels have the same average power leading to the same average SNR. All bursts within the same group are subjected to an identical
channel response. In this case. hg(g), .g = 1 G are all distinct but the channel
responses, hg(i) , i= 1. ...ng for each burst in the group are equal. ng is the number of bursts in the g'1 group. This potentially represents a multi-code scenario on the uplink, where each UE 14, transmits two codes. The SIC-JD receiver 28 groups the multi-codes associated with a single UE 14| into the same group, thus forming 4 groups. Figures 10 and 11 represent the common channel case. All groups are assumed to
pass through the same multi-path channel, i.e.hg(i) , g = 1 ng are all equal but
with different Tg. . g = I. G The Tg are chosen such thai, when arranged according to power neighboring groups have a power separation of 2 dB. This potentially represents a multi-code scenario on the downlink where the base station 12| transmits 2 codes per UE 14,. Figures 10 and 11 show a trend similar to that observed for the SIC-LSE shown in Figures 8 and 9. SIC-JD has a performance comparable {within a dB) to the JD in the region of 1% to 10% BER. which is the operating region of interest for the uncoded BER. Depending upon the channel, a power separation of I to 2 dB is sufficient to achieve a performance of SIC-LSE comparable to that of the full JD As shown, performance improves as the power separation between bursts increases.
Figure 12 is similar to Figure 10. except that there are only two groups with 4 bursts each. As shown in Figure 12. SIC-JD has a performance comparable (within a dB) to
JD in the region of 1% to 10% BER.
The complexity of SIC-JD is less than full JD. The reduced complexity stems from the replacement of a single-step JD which is a dimension Nv x K .Ns with G JD stages of dimension Nc x ni .Ns ,i =l...G .Since, typically, JD involves a matrix inversion, whose complexity varies as the cube of the number of bursts, the overall complexity of the multi-stage JD can be significantly lower than that of the single- stage full JD. Furthermore, the complexity of the SIC part varies only linearly with the number of bursts, hence it does not offset this complexity advantage significantly. For instance, the complexity of the G-I stages of interference cancellation can be derived as follows. Since successive column blocks of Ag(I) are shifted

versions of the first block and assuming that elements of g(i)ghard belong to 1 of 4 QPSK constellation points, the 4 - n, possible vectors can be computed that are needed in computing
G-l
the product Ag(i) d(i) g.hard -This step requires 4a.(SF+W-l).Rate Σ n, million real operations
106 i=l per sec(MROPS). α=4 is the number of real operations per complex multiplication or
multiply and accumulate (MAC). Rate is the number of times the SIC-JD is performed per second. With these 4 - n, vectors already computed, the computation of x require
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comes from the fact that only complex additions are involved. Hence, only 2 real operations are required for each complex operation. It then follows that the
complexity of G -I stages of interference cancellation can be expressed by Equation (Equation Removed)
The complexity of converting soft to hard decisions is negligible. There are several well-known techniques to solve the matrix inversion of JD. To illustrate the complexity, an approach using a very efficient approximate Cholesky factor algorithm with negligible loss in performance as compared to the exact Cholesky factor algorithm was used. The same algorithm can be employed to solve group-wise JD. The complexity of the full ill and the SIC-JD for the 3GPP UTRA TDD system is shown in Table 1. Table 1 compares their complexity for various group sizes. It can be seen that as K increases or as the group size decreases the complexity advantage of the SIC-JD over the full JD increases. The complexity for group size 1. of the SIC-LSE. varies linearly with K and is 33% that of the full JD for K = 16. Note that maximum number of bursts in the UTRA TDD system is 16. The complexity advantage of the SIC-JD over full JD will be even more pronounced when the exact Cholesky decomposition is employed. Exact Cholesky decomposition's complexity exhibits a stronger dependence on K, leading to more savings as the dimension of the JD is reduced via SIC-JD.

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Table I
As-shown in Table I. when the number and size of codes is made completely adaptive on, an observation interval-by-observation interval basis, the SIC-JD provides savings, on average, over full JD. Since, on average, all bursts do not arrive at the receiver with equal power, depending upon the grouping threshold, the size of the groups will be less then the total number of arriving bursts. In addition, a reduction in peak complexity is also possible if the maximum allowed group size is hard-limited to be less than the maximum possible number of bursts. Such a scheme leads to some degradation in performance when the number of bursts arriving at the receiver with the roughly the same power exceeds the maximum allowed group size. Accordingly. SIC-JD provides a mechanism to trade-off performance with peak complexity or required peak processing power.





We Claim:
1. A receiver processing a plurality of received data signals in a time slot, the receiver comprising:
an antenna (40) for receiving radio frequency signals including the received data signals;
a demodulator (42) for demodulating radio frequency signals to produce a baseband signal;
a channel estimation (44) device for estimating a channel response for the bursts;
a successive interference cancellation joint detection (SIC-JD) device (46) configured to receive the baseband signal and characterized by comprising:
a first circuit (66, 68, 79, 72) capable of jointly detecting data of a group of the received data signals, constructing interference using the jointly detected data and subtracting the constructed interference from received signals, the first circuit capable of jointly detecting data of all data signals or a single data signal; and
a plurality of other circuits (66[,- 660, 68|,- 68^, 70|,- 70o, 72|,- 72o) capable of successively repeating the jointly detecting data, the interference construction and the subtracting, wherein each of the other circuits capable of jointly detecting a group of data signals or a single data signal; wherein a desired performance in detecting data is determined and a number of data signals processed by each of the first and other circuits is adjusted based on the desired performance; and
wherein the number of processed data signals of the first circuit increases as the desired performance increases and the number of processed data signals of the first circuit decreases as the desired performance decreases.
2. The receiver as claimed in claim 1 characterized by a received power
of each data signal is determined; the grouping for each first and other circuit is
performed so that all data signals within each group are within a certain threshold power level and to reduce complexity, the certain threshold is increased and to increase performance, the certain threshold is reduced.
3. The receiver as claimed in claim 1 characterized by to reduce the
complexity, each group contains one of the data signals.
4. The receiver as claimed in claim 1 characterized by to increase the
performance, the first circuit group is a single group.
5. A method for use in a receiver for adjusting a trade-off between
complexity and performance in detecting data from data signals transmitted over a
shared spectrum in a time slot in a time division duplex communication system using
code division multiple access, the method characterized by:
providing a first circuit (66, 68, 79. 72) capable of jointly detecting data of a group of the received data signals, constructing interference using the jointly detected data and subtracting the constructed interference from received signals, the first circuit capable of jointly detecting data of all data signals or a single data signal;
providing a plurality of other circuits (66|,- 66f,, 68|,- 680, 70|,- 70o, 72|,- 72(;) capable of successively repeating the jointly detecting data, the interference construction and the subtracting, wherein each of the other circuits capable of jointly detecting a group of data signals or a single data signal;
determining desired performance in detecting data; and
adjusting a number of data signals processed by each of the first and other circuits based on the desired performance; wherein the number of processed data signals of the first circuit increases as the desired performance increases and the number of processed data signals of the first circuit decreases as the desired performance decreases.
6. The method as claimed in claim 5 characterized by:
determining a received power of each data signal; wherein the grouping for each first and other circuit is performed so that all data signals within each group are within a certain threshold power level and to reduce complexity, the certain threshold is increased and to increase performance, the certain threshold is reduced.
7. The method as claimed in claim 5 characterized by to reduce the
complexity, each group contains one of the data signals.
8. The method as claimed in claim 5 characterized by to increase the
performance, the first circuit group is a single group.
9. The invention according to any of the preceding claims and supported
by the description and the drawing figures.

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Patent Number 197667
Indian Patent Application Number IN/PCT/2002/00882/DEL
PG Journal Number 44/2007
Publication Date 02-Nov-2007
Grant Date 16-Mar-2007
Date of Filing 11-Sep-2002
Name of Patentee INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Applicant Address 3411 SILVERSIDE ROAD, CONCORD PLAZA, SUITE 105 HAGLEY BUILDING WILMINGTON DE 19810 (USA)
Inventors:
# Inventor's Name Inventor's Address
1 PAN, JUNG-LIN 15 COURT STREET, SELDEN, NY 11784 (US)
2 MISRA, RAJ, MANI 39639 LESLIE STREET, APT. 140, FREMONT, CA 94538 (US)
3 ZEIRA, ARIELA 239 WEST NECK ROAD, HUNTINGTON, NY 11743 (US)
PCT International Classification Number H04B 1/707
PCT International Application Number PCT/ US01/05576
PCT International Filing date 2001-02-21
PCT Conventions:
# PCT Application Number Date of Convention Priority Country
1 60/189,680 2000-03-15 U.S.A.
2 60/207,700 2000-05-26 U.S.A.