System and method for measuring channel quality information in a communication system

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PATENT NO 6215827
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09044636

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A system and method to measure channel quality in terms of signal to interference plus noise ratio for the transmission of coded signals over fading channels in a communication system. A Viterbi decoder metric for the Maximum Likelihood path is used as a channel quality measure for coherent and non-coherent transmission schemes. This Euclidean distance metric is filtered in order to smooth out short term variations. The filtered or averaged metric is a reliable channel quality measure which remains consistent across different coded modulation schemes speeds. The filtered metric is mapped to the signal to interference plus noise ratio per symbol using a threshold based scheme. Use of this implicit signal to interference plus noise ratio estimate is used for the mobile assisted handoff in a cellular system, power control and data rate adaptation in the transmitter.

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  • LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.;WSOU INVESTMENTS, LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Balachandran, Krishna Middletown, NJ 84 2344
Ejzak, Richard P Wheaton, IL 25 1193
Kadaba, Srinivas R Chatham, NJ 17 1187
Nanda, Sanjiv Plainsboro, NJ 282 14049

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