Discrimination procedure of a wanted signal from a plurality of cochannel interfering signals and receiver using this procedure

   
   

It is described a discrimination procedure of a wanted signal from a plurality of cochannel interferents received by array antennas of GSM or DCS base transceiver stations. The procedure includes a phase for the estimate of the number and arrival directions of the interferents, and of the wanted signal, followed by a spatial filtering phase in which the signals transduced by the sensors of the array are linearly combined among them through multiplication coefficients, or weights, organized in a vector w satisfying the two following in conditions: A) Spatial filtering constrains the gain of the array in the ratio between wanted signal and noise, compared to the traditional use of a single sensor, so that the gain is not less than a properly selected threshold; B) it minimizes the ratio between the sum of interferents' powers and wanted signal power.

Se describe un procedimiento de la discriminación de una señal deseada de una pluralidad de interferents del cochannel recibidos por las antenas de arsenal las estaciones bajas del transmisor-receptor del G/M o de DCS. El procedimiento incluye una fase para la estimación de las direcciones del número y de la llegada de los interferents, y de la señal deseada, seguido por una fase de filtración espacial en la cual las señales transduced por los sensores del arsenal se combinan linear entre ellos a través de coeficientes de la multiplicación, o de pesos, organizados en un vector W que satisface los dos que siguen en condiciones: A) La filtración espacial obliga el aumento del arsenal en el cociente entre la señal y el ruido deseados, comparado al uso tradicional de un solo sensor, de modo que el aumento no sea menos que un umbral correctamente seleccionado; B) reduce al mínimo el cociente entre la suma de las energías de los interferents y la energía deseada de la señal.

 
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