| CPC H04W 56/001 (2013.01) [H04L 5/1461 (2013.01); H04L 5/1469 (2013.01)] | 8 Claims |

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1. A method of operating an interference cancellation repeater, which shares a part of a downlink communication path and an uplink communication path, the method comprising:
detecting a synchronization signal from a received signal;
selecting one of a plurality of adaptive filters based on the detected synchronization signal; and
canceling interference included in the received signal by using the selected adaptive filter,
wherein an analog-to-digital converter and a digital-to-analog converter are included on a path shared by the downlink communication path and the uplink communication path,
wherein the detecting of the synchronization signal comprises determining a downlink communication period or an uplink communication period based on the synchronization signal, and
wherein the selecting one of the plurality of adaptive filters based on the detected synchronization signal comprises:
selecting a first adaptive filter from among the plurality of adaptive filters in the uplink communication period, and
selecting a second adaptive filter from among the plurality of adaptive filters in the downlink communication period.
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