Multiuser receivers for cdma downlink

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2008
Duran, Ömer Agah
In this thesis, multiuser receivers for code division multiple-access (CDMA) downlink are studied under frequency selective fading channel conditions. The receivers investigated in this thesis attempt to estimate desired symbol as a linear combination of chip-rate sampled received signal sequence. A common matrix-vector representation of signals, which is similar to the model given by Paulraj et. al. is constructed in order to analyze the receivers studied in this thesis. Two receivers already well known in the literature are introduced and derived by using the common signal model. One of the receivers uses traditional matched filter and the other uses symbol-level linear minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimation. The receiver that uses traditional matched filter, also known as the conventional RAKE receiver, benefits from time diversity by combining the signal energy from multiple paths. The conventional RAKE receiver is optimal when multiple-access interference (MAI) is absent. Linear MMSE based receivers are known to suppress MAI and to be more robust to noise enhancement. The optimal symbol-level linear MMSE based receiver requires inversion of large matrices whose size is determined by either number of active users or spreading factor. These two parameters can be quite large in many practical systems and hence the computational load of this receiver can be a problem. In this thesis, two alternative low-complexity receivers, which are chip-level linear MMSE equalizer proposed by Krauss et. al. and interference-suppressing RAKE receiver proposed by Paulraj et. al., are compared with the linear full-rank MMSE based receiver and with the conventional RAKE receiver in terms of bit-error-rate performance. Various simulations are performed to evaluate the performance of the receivers and the parameters affecting the receiver performance are investigated.

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Ö. A. Duran, “Multiuser receivers for cdma downlink,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2008.