The present disclosure concerns receivers for use in nodes or devices that participate in wireless communications. In one exemplary embodiment, the receiver receives a first signal attributable to a first carrier and a second signal attributable to a second carrier. A first path searcher detects taps in the first signal attributable to the first carrier. A second path searcher detects taps in the second signal attributable to the second carrier. A channel tap selector selects, based on received energy values for taps detected by the first path searcher and the second path searcher, which tap values are to be used for taps of the receiver for both the first carrier and the second carrier.

The present disclosure concerns receivers for use in nodes or devices that participate in wireless communications. In one exemplary embodiment, the receiver receives a first signal attributable to a first carrier and a second signal attributable to a second carrier. A first path searcher detects taps in the first signal attributable to the first carrier. A second path searcher detects taps in the second signal attributable to the second carrier. A channel tap selector selects, based on received energy values for taps detected by the first path searcher and the second path searcher, which tap values are to be used for taps of the receiver for both the first carrier and the second carrier.

A multi-mode receiver includes a channel decomposition module (e.g., a Rake receiver) for separating a received signal into multipath components, an interference selector for selecting interfering paths and subchannels, a synthesizer for synthesizing interference signals from selected sub channel symbol estimates, and an interference canceller for cancelling selected interference in the received signal. At least one of the channel decomposition module, the synthesizer, and the interference canceller are configurable for processing multi-mode signals.

A multi-mode receiver includes a channel decomposition module (e.g., a Rake receiver) for separating a received signal into multipath components, an interference selector for selecting interfering paths and subchannels, a synthesizer for synthesizing interference signals from selected sub channel symbol estimates, and an interference canceller for cancelling selected interference in the received signal. At least one of the channel decomposition module, the synthesizer, and the interference canceller are configurable for processing multi-mode signals.

A receiver for receiving an input signal is disclosed. The receiver includes a processor, a memory, a plurality of sub-receivers configured to receive a plurality of versions of the input signal through a plurality of transmission channels, a sub-receiver selection module configured to select one more of the plurality of sub-receivers using expected contributions to signal-to-noise (SNR) of an output signal based on an uncertainty of the estimated contributions. The receiver also includes a combiner to combine outputs of the selected sub-receivers to produce the output signal.

A receiver for receiving an input signal is disclosed. The receiver includes a processor, a memory, a plurality of sub-receivers configured to receive a plurality of versions of the input signal through a plurality of transmission channels, a sub-receiver selection module configured to select one more of the plurality of sub-receivers using expected contributions to signal-to-noise (SNR) of an output signal based on an uncertainty of the estimated contributions. The receiver also includes a combiner to combine outputs of the selected sub-receivers to produce the output signal.

A receiver in a CDMA system comprises a front end processor that generates a combined signal per source. A symbol estimator processes the combined signal to produce symbol estimates. An S-Matrix Generation module refines these symbol estimates based on the sub channel symbol estimates. An interference canceller is configured for cancelling interference from at least one of the plurality of received signals for producing at least one interference-cancelled signal.

A receiver in a CDMA system comprises a front end processor that generates a combined signal per source. A symbol estimator processes the combined signal to produce symbol estimates. An S-Matrix Generation module refines these symbol estimates based on the sub channel symbol estimates. An interference canceller is configured for cancelling interference from at least one of the plurality of received signals for producing at least one interference-cancelled signal.

A communication device is described comprising a plurality of receive paths, wherein each of the plurality of receive paths is configured to extract a multipath component of a received signal, a determiner configured to determine whether at least two of the plurality of receive paths fulfil a mutual interference correlation criterion among the plurality of receive paths and a processor configured, if at least two of the plurality of receive paths fulfil the interference correlation criterion among the plurality of receive paths, to determine the sent signal based on canceling or mitigating the interference between the multipath components of the received signal extracted by the at least two receive paths.

A communication device is described comprising a plurality of receive paths, wherein each of the plurality of receive paths is configured to extract a multipath component of a received signal, a determiner configured to determine whether at least two of the plurality of receive paths fulfil a mutual interference correlation criterion among the plurality of receive paths and a processor configured, if at least two of the plurality of receive paths fulfil the interference correlation criterion among the plurality of receive paths, to determine the sent signal based on canceling or mitigating the interference between the multipath components of the received signal extracted by the at least two receive paths.