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(19) European Patent Office *EP001401121A3*

Office européen des brevets (11) EP 1 401 121 A3
(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3: (51) Int Cl.7: H04B 7/08

06.05.2004 Bulletin 2004/19

(43) Date of publication A2:

24.03.2004 Bulletin 2004/13

(21) Application number: 03028818.7

(22) Date of filing: 10.11.2000

(84) Designated Contracting States: (71) Applicant: SK Telecom Co., Ltd.

AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU Jongro-ku, Seoul 110-110 (KR)
MC NL PT SE TR
Designated Extension States: (72) Inventors:
AL LT LV MK • Kwon, Hyuck, M.
Wichita 67226 Kansas (US)
(30) Priority: 10.11.1999 US 164552 P • Song, Yoo-Seung
Youngjoo-shi, Kyungbook (KR)
(62) Document number(s) of the earlier application(s) in
accordance with Art. 76 EPC: (74) Representative: Mounteney, Simon James
00310032.8 / 1 100 214 MARKS & CLERK,
57-60 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London WC2A 3LS (GB)

(54) Smart antennas for IMT-2000 code division multiple access wireless communications

(57) A method, for use in a smart antenna system, -l

w(k)=ζR w (k)a(k)
for generating a weight vector based on the maximum
signal-to-interference-plus-noise-output power ratio
(SINR0) criteria with an eigenvector finding technique, w(k)
wherein the weight vector is applied after pseudo noise w(k) = -------------
w l (k)
(PN) despreading instead at the front of a receiver for
channel estimation and data symbol demodulation. The
method comprises the steps of: where

receiving new post-PN processing vectors y(i) and G 1

new pre-PN processing vectors x(i);
setting a post-PN correlation signal vector y for a
finger of a user at snapshot k as:
y(k) = s(k) + i(k) + n(k) = s(k) + v(k)
wherein s(k) is an Mx1 desired user signal vector
through fading channel; i(k) is an Mx1 PN-spread inter-
ference signal vector; n(k) is an M31 thermal noise vec-
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R vv (k) = ---------- (R xx (k)- ----R yy (k)),
G-1 G
wherein G is a PN spread processing gain; Rxx(k)
is M3M autocorrelation matrix of M31 x(i), pre-PN de-
spreading array sample vector; Ryy(k)=M3M autocorre-
lation matrix of M31 y(k), post-PN de-spreading array
sample vector; and a(k) is an channel vector, to thereby
generate the weight vector.

tor; and v(k)=i(k)+n(k) is an interference plus noise vec-

tor;
calculating an optimum weight vector w(k) as:

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