Novel multireceiver communication systems configurations based on optimal estimation theory

A multireceiver configuration for the purpose of carrier arraying and/or signal arraying is presented. The configuration is arrived at by formulating the carrier and/or signal arraying problem as an optimal estimation problem and consists of two stages. The first stage optimally estimates various phase processes received at different receivers with coupled phase-locked loops, (PLL) wherein the individual PLLs acquire and track their respective receivers' phase processes but are aided by each other in an optimal manner via low-frequency error signals. The coupled PLL estimator is followed by a linear or nonlinear combining of the quadrature-phase components of the mixers from various receivers for the purpose of data detection. The proposed configuration results in the minimization of the effective radio loss as the combiner output and thus maximization of energy per bit to noise power spectral density ratio is achieved. An adaptive algorithm for the estimator of the signal model parameters when these are not known a priori is also presented.<
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