A system that incorporates aspects of the subject disclosure may perform operations including, for example, receiving, via an antenna, a signal generated by a communication device, detecting passive intermodulation interference in the signal, the interference generated by one or more transmitters unassociated with the communication device, and the interference determined from signal characteristics associated with a signaling protocol used by the one or more transmitters. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A system and method for characterizing an interference demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in a piece of user equipment (UE), e.g., a mobile device. The UE determines whether the serving signal is transmitted in a DMRS-based transmission mode; if it is, the UE cancels the serving DMRS from the received signal; otherwise the UE cancels the serving data signal from the received signal. The remaining signal is then analyzed for the amount of power it has in each of four interference DMRS candidates, and hypothesis testing is performed to determine whether interference DMRS is present in the signal, and, if so, to determine the rank of the interference DMRS, and the port and scrambling identity of each of the interference DMRS layers.

A system and method are provided for processing symbols for transmission. The method involves producing a set of 2K outputs that include K real components and K imaginary components from K complex symbols, performing a Fourier transform operation on the 2K outputs to produce 2K Fourier transform outputs, pulse shaping the 2K Fourier transform outputs by multiplying each of J of the 2K Fourier transform outputs with a respective one of J non-zero coefficients, where J is odd, and KJ2K1, performing an inverse Fourier transform operation on the J pulse shaped outputs to produce an inverse Fourier transform output; and outputting the inverse Fourier transform output. The approach has the advantage of avoiding self-interference, with the result that better BLER performance may be possible. The approach is applicable to any modulation order without bandwidth expansion. Flexibility is provided through a trade-off between PAPR vs. spectrum efficiency.

Systems and methods for mitigating broadband and/or Intermodulation (IM) interference. The methods comprise: monitoring performance of at least one demodulator performance metric of a communication device; detecting when the communication device is under or will be under an influence of IM interference based on a performance of the at least one demodulator performance metric; determining an improved level of gain to be applied to (i) a variable attenuator of the communication device or (ii) a variable gain low noise amplifier of the communication device; and selectively adjusting an amount of gain being applied by the variable attenuator or variable gain low noise amplifier based on the improved performance achieved with new level of attenuation.

A system and method are provided for processing symbols for transmission. The method involves producing a set of 2K outputs that include K real components and K imaginary components from K complex symbols, performing a Fourier transform operation on the 2K outputs to produce 2K Fourier transform outputs, pulse shaping the 2K Fourier transform outputs by multiplying each of J of the 2K Fourier transform outputs with a respective one of J non-zero coefficients, where J is odd, and KJ2K1, performing an inverse Fourier transform operation on the J pulse shaped outputs to produce an inverse Fourier transform output; and outputting the inverse Fourier transform output. The approach has the advantage of avoiding self-interference, with the result that better BLER performance may be possible. The approach is applicable to any modulation order without bandwidth expansion. Flexibility is provided through a trade-off between PAPR vs. spectrum efficiency.

Disclosed is a blind authentication method for a frequency selective fading channel based on belief propagation. The method includes: transmitting carrier signals to a frequency selective fading channel with multiple paths, where each carrier signal includes an authentication signal, a pilot signal and an information signal performing BKIC processing on a carrier signal in each path to obtain a target signal, and performing differential signal processing on the target signal to obtain a target authentication signal, obtaining a reference signal based on a key and the pilot signal in each path performing the differential signal processing on the reference signal to obtain a reference authentication signal, and calculating a correlation between the target authentication signal and the reference authentication signal to obtain a test statistic; and comparing the test statistic with a prescribed threshold to determine whether the carrier signal path can pass authentication.

Embodiments of this application disclose an interference cancellation method and a base station. The method in the embodiments of this application may include obtaining, by a first base station, system information of a neighboring cell. The method may also include determining, by the first base station, interference channel information of a second base station to the first base station based on the system information, where the second base station is a base station in a coverage area of the neighboring cell. Furthermore, the method may also include receiving, by the first base station based on the interference channel information, an uplink signal sent by user equipment in a coverage area of the first base station.

A base station, a communication system and a time synchronization method between base stations are provided, which are capable of performing a time synchronization with another base station using a downlink signal of the other base station cell in which the own cell is located, without stopping transmission of the own base station even during operation. A base station receives a downlink signal that includes a downlink signal including a synchronization signal transmitted from the other base station and a downlink wraparound signal transmitted from own base station, removes an interference of the wraparound signal from the downlink received signal, with respect to a predetermined subframe in which the downlink wraparound signal from own base station interferes with the synchronization signal of the base station, among subframes of the downlink signal including the synchronization signal of the base station, performs a time synchronization processing with the base station by detecting a synchronization signal timing of the base station based on the downlink received signal from which the interference of wraparound signal is removed.

Communication method and base stations are provided. One example includes determining, by a base station, that co-channel interference exists. For N consecutive symbols before a guard period (GP) in a special subframe in a radio frame, the base station sends a signal by using M1 middle resource blocks (RBs) of the N symbols, and reserves use of an RB other than the M1 RBs in the N symbols, where both N and M1 are positive integers.

An operating method for an electronic device and a signal processor included in the electronic device are provided. The operating method for an electronic device comprises a descrambling a synchronization signal received from a cell, acquiring a time domain average signal on the descrambled synchronization signal, executing a differential correlation on the time domain average signal by a predetermined reference, and measuring a power of the synchronization signal provided from the cell, using the differential.