Wireless interference mitigation

1. An apparatus for wireless interference mitigation within a first User Equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising:

at least one channel estimator to estimate a first channel transfer function associated with a first received signal designated for the first UE, and to estimate a second channel transfer function associated with a second received, interference, signal based on information provided to the apparatus from a network about a reference signal associated with the second received signal, wherein the reference signal is a UE-specific reference signal or a cell-specific reference signal;

at least one symbol estimator, responsive to the at least one channel estimator, to process at least the first received signal to produce a symbol estimation; and

a demodulator, responsive to the channel estimator, operable to demodulate the symbol estimation to produce an output representing a received data unit corresponding to the symbol estimation; the demodulator comprising a processing unit arranged to demodulate the symbol estimation using the first channel transfer function and the second channel transfer function,

wherein the at least one symbol estimator comprises a symbol processor arranged to produce a set of signal candidates, ŝ(t i ), defined as ŝ(t i )=slice{(h h h) −1 h h (r−g·t i )}, where h is the channel transfer function on a given resource element for a serving channel, g is the channel transfer function on a given resource element for the serving channel, r is the received signal, t i is an element of a set T of all possible interfering signal candidates, the superscript h represents a Hermitian transpose, and the superscript −1 represents a matrix inverse.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , in which the processing unit is operable to calculate the received data unit using an estimation computation.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , in which the estimation computation is a Maximum Likelihood estimation computation.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the information provided to the apparatus from the network about the reference signal is provided in downlink control information.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , in which the reference signal comprises a UE-specific reference signal.

6. The apparatus of claim 4 , in which the downlink control information is further associated with the first received signal.

7. The apparatus of claim 4 , in which the downlink control information comprises a UE-specific reference signal parameter.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , in which the UE-specific reference signal (RS) parameter comprises a virtual cell identifier of UE-specific RS, a scrambling sequence index (nSCID), or UE-specific antenna ports.

9. The apparatus of claim 4 , in which the downlink control information comprises a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) parameter.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , in which the CRS parameter comprises at least one of a physical cell identifier, number of CRS antenna ports, and a Multimedia Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe configuration.

11. The apparatus of claim 4 , in which the downlink control information comprises at least one physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) resource element mapping parameter.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , in which the at least one PDSCH resource element mapping parameter comprises a physical cell identifier, number of cell-specific reference signals (CRS) antenna ports, CRS frequency shift, Multimedia Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe configuration, or a PDSCH starting symbol and PDSCH resource allocation.

13. An apparatus for wireless interference mitigation within a first User Equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising:

at least one channel estimator for estimating a first channel transfer function associated with a first received signal designated for the first UE, and for estimating a second channel transfer function associated with a second received, interference, signal;

at least one symbol estimator, responsive to the at least one channel estimator, to process at least the first received signal to produce a symbol estimation; and

a demodulator, responsive to the channel estimator, operable to demodulate the symbol estimation to produce an output representing a received data unit corresponding to the symbol estimation; the demodulator comprising a processing unit arranged to demodulate the symbol estimation using the first channel transfer function and the second channel transfer function,

wherein the at least one symbol estimator comprises a symbol processor arranged to produce a set of signal candidates, ŝ(t i ), defined as ŝ(t i )=slice{(h h h) −1 h h (r−g·t i )}, where h is the channel transfer function on a given resource element for a serving channel, g is the channel transfer function on a given resource element for the serving channel, r is the received signal, t i is an element of a set T of all possible interfering signal candidates, the superscript h represents a Hermitian transpose, and the superscript −1 represents a matrix inverse.

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