异步DS-CDMA系统盲空时信道估计及多用户检测

该文提出了适用于频率选择性瑞利衰落信道中的异步DS-CDMA系统盲空时信道估计及多用户检测算法。通过研究多径信号码空间和数据矢量空间,采用噪声子空间技术进行异步DS-CDMA系统盲空时信道参数估计,同时利用了多径传播和接收机同步失调的特性,以利于把盲线性滤波优化技术应用于稳健的干扰抑制。使用一种修改的ULV更新算法进行噪声子空间跟踪,该算法不需要相关矩阵的秩估计,直接估计噪声子空间,不进行信号子空间跟踪。并且研究了线性约束最小方差(LCMV)盲空时多用户检测及其基于Householder变换约束最小均方算法(HCLMS)的自适应实现。仿真结果验证了该文算法的有效性。     

Iterative multiuser detection with integrated channel estimation for coded DS-CDMA

A practically interesting approach for iterative channel estimation, multiuser detection, and single-user decoding based on maximum a posteriori symbol-by-symbol estimation for direct sequence/code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) is proposed. The receiver relies on the output of a bank of matched filters for each user and each path, and combines interference cancellation with iterated soft-decision feedback to improve channel estimation accuracy and data symbol reliability in course of a few iterations. We show that in this way, near single-user channel phase and amplitude estimation accuracy is achieved for frequency-selective fading channels, even in highly loaded systems, and illustrate that reliable data symbol estimation can be performed.     

一种新的抗远近效应的盲DS-CDMA接收机

本文研究多径频率选择性衰落信道下直接序列扩频码分多址(DS-CDMA)信号的处理问题,提出了一种新型的盲接收机.该接收机不需预知多址干扰用户的扩频码,不需预知信道参数,只需已知期望用户的扩频码和粗略的定时,就可以完成用户的盲检测.同时,该接收机通过降维自适应去相关滤波和基于判决指导的自适应多径合并,来获得低成本和良好的抗衰落、抗远近效应性能.仿真结果验证了本文提出的接收机的优良性能.     

A Study of the Technique of Linear Multiuser

The technique of linear multiuser detection in DS-CDMA systems is studied in this paper. The purpose is to find a receiver structure with good performance and moderate complexity, so that the receiver can efficiently suppress multiple-access interference(MAI) and multipath interference and has good near-far resistant ability, which may improve the system's capability while reducing the requirement for power control. The main work of the dissertation can be summarized as follows: the performance of MMSE multiuser detector in synchronous/asynchronous DS-CDMA systems over different channels is analyzed in chapter 2 of the dissertation. Using matrix method, we analyze the relation between performance measurement and spreading code correlation matrix, Signal-Interference-Ratio(SIR) and near-far factor, and prove that the performance of MMSE detector is better than that of the decorrelating detector. For fading channel, we analyze the performance of MMSE detector in DS-SS system firstly. Results show that the detector can efficiently suppress multipath interference. Extending to synchronous/asynchronous DS-CDMA systems over fading channels, we propose a simple linear detector structure that accomplishes despreading, detection and combining. Thus, the receiver is easy for implementation. Based on the proposed notion of combined spreading codes, we prove that the synchronous/asynchronous CDMA system is equivalent to the synchronous CDMA system over AWGN channel with double users. Therefore, the MMSE detector can efficiently suppress MAI and multipath interference in steady state, and has good near-far resistant ability. In chapter 3, we study the adaptive algorithm based on MMSE criterion. Firstly, the approach to the blind algorithm based on subspace is analyzed. We improve the algorithm in the part of channel estimation, which decreases the computational complexity while guaranteeing the performance. Meanwhile, we point out that CMOE-RLS algorithm is essentially an algorithm based on subspace approach. Also, it is shown from simulation that PASTd subspace tracking algorithm is not applicable for multiuser detection. Secondly, we propose an adaptive algorithm based on pilot channel, called PCA/PCRA. The algorithm does not require channel estimation, and has a rapid convergence rate. The steady state performance can be achieved by increasing the transmitting power in pilot channel. Computational complexity is only O(N2). Therefore, PCA/PCRA is suitable for the engineering application. The cost is that a pilot channel is needed for each user in the system. In chapter 4, constant algorithms for multiuser detection are studied. Firstly, we analyze the capture performance of CMA, and point out there exist many local stationary points. Initializations to guarantee CMA converges to the desired point are discussed. Results show that the convergence of CMA is decided by constant, step-size, spreading code correlation matrix and near-far factor. Secondly, we propose the constrained constant algorithm (C-CMA) for multiuser detection. It is shown that when the constant is greater than the triple power of the desired user, C-CMA globally converges to the desired point. Simulations illustrate that C-CMA has a rapid convergence rate and the steady state performance is good. However, great step-size can also reult in dispersion for the algorithm. Since C-CMA is a variable step-size CMOE-LMS algorithm, we propose a variable step-size constraint algorithm (VSCA). VSCA has the advantages of both CMOE-LMS and C-CMA such as robust, rapid convergence rate and good steady state performance. Thus, VSCA is suitable for engineering application. But the improper selection of step-size coefficients may degrade performance seriously. The computational complexity of the above constant algorithms is only O(N). In Section 5, the cyclostationarity of spreading signals is analyzed in the first part. We prove that spreading signals are ergodic cyclostationary signals with a cyclic period that is equal to the period of spreading code. Methods for processing cyclostationary signals are then given. It is shown that this method can mitigate the interference from a stationary noise for channel estimation. But the computational complexity for cyclostationary correlation is high, which prevents its application in implementation. In the second part, we discuss the application of oversampling technique in spreading communication systems. Although the oversampling can improve the performance of the linear multiuser detector, the improvement is trivial. On the contrary, oversampling increases the computational complexity of the weight vector greatly, which prevents its application in implementation. Additionally, we prove that FSE plus despreading or despreading pus FSE is equivalent to the linear detector with different lengths of delay line. However, the two kinds of structure have lower computational complexity.     

空时编码多载波码分多址MIMO系统下行频率选择性信道盲估计

基于子空间方法的无线信道盲估计由于其算法的固有特性,使得估计结果与实际信道之间存在一个不确定复系数,无法得到无线信道的精确估计。在利用子空间分解方法对空时编码多输入多输出MC-CDMA系统下行频率选择性信道盲估计的基础上,利用发射符号的有限码集特性,将单载波系统下的模糊复系数盲辨识方法推广到多载波多输入多输出系统,从而得到信道的精确估计。Monte-Carlo仿真表明,在信噪比较低的情况下,本方法的信道估计误差仍然较小。     

一种新的基于自适应步长的二级CMA盲接收机

在高速数据传输的频率选择性信道的直接序列扩频系统中,基于恒模算法（CMA）的二级盲接收机能够在只知道期望用户的扩频码以及定时信息的情况下进行自适应联合均衡和多用户检测,具有较好的实时处理性能。但是其第一级检测器的自适应求取采用的是递归最小二乘（RLS）算法,该算法在收敛稳定性等方面具有一系列缺陷,从而对整个算法的性能造成了损害。本文将戴彧虹 袁亚湘自适应步长迭代算法作为第一级检测器的自适应处理方式,并给出了新的方案的完整实现流程。理论和仿真结果显示,经过改进后的二级CMA盲自适应接收机比起原先的算法有着更低的误码率和更高的稳态输出信干比（SINR）,在总体性能上有了很大提高。      

Differentially Coherent Blind Adaptive Receiver for Rayleigh Fading CDMA Channels

Interest in code division multiple access (CDMA) has increased dramaticallyin boththe industry and academia. This is due to the potential increase in usercapacity andinterference, multipath fading, and jam-resistant capabilities. Differentapproaches ofmultiuser detection schemes have shown improvement over the conventionalreceiver.However, multiuser detectors require system parameters and adaptive multiuserreceivers require training sequences. These parameters are difficult toobtain inmultipath fading channels with a degradation in performance. A blind adaptivemultiuser receiver for flat fading and frequency-selective fading environments isstudied in this paper. This receiver alleviates the problem of multiuser detectors and adaptivemultiuser receivers by using a blind adaptive equalization method. The structure of the receiveris similar to that of the adaptive MMSE receiver which consists of an adaptive equalizer and an adaptivemechanism that uses a standard least mean-squared (LMS) algorithm, but uses a matched filterto generate a reference signal. The receiver is shown to be effective in different fadingchannels with perfect power control and a near-far effect. Furthermore, the simulationresults show that the blind MMSE receiver outperforms the conventional receiver and theRAKE receiver.     

Multiuser detection in asynchronous CDMA frequency-selective fading channels

Multipath fading severely limits the performances of conventional code division multiple-access (CDMA) systems. Since every signal passes through an independent frequency-selective fading channel, even modest cross-correlations among signature sequences may induce severe near-far effects in a central multiuser receiver. This paper presents a systematic approach to the detection problem in CDMA frequency-selective fading channels and proposes a low complexity linear multiuser receiver, which eliminates fading induced near-far problem.We initially analyze an optimal multiuser detector, consisting of a bank of RAKE filters followed by a dynamic programming algorithm and evaluate its performance through error probability bounds. The concepts of error sequence decomposition and asymptotic multiuser efficiency, used to characterize the optimal receiver performance, are extended to multipath fading channels.The complexity of the optimal detector motivates the work on a near-far resistant, low complexity decorrelating multiuser detector, which exploits multipath diversity by using a multipath decorrelating filter followed by maximal-ratio combining. Analytic expressions for error probability and asymptotic multiuser efficiency of the suboptimal receiver are derived that include the effects of multipath fading, multiple-access interference and signature sequences correlation on the receiver's performance.The results indicate that multiuser detectors not only alleviate the near-far problem but approach single-user RAKE performance, while preserving the multipath diversity gain. In interference-limited scenarios multiuser receivers significantly outperform the RAKE receiver.This paper was presented in part at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 1992 and MILCOM'92, San Diego, CA, October 1992. This work was performed while author was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, USA.     

On CDMA with space-time codes over multipath fading channels

We explore code-division multiple-access systems with multiple transmitter and receiver antennas combined with algebraic constellations over a quasi-static multipath fading channel. We first propose a technique to obtain transmit diversity for a single user over quasi-static fading channels by combining algebraic constellations with full spatial diversity and spreading sequences with good cross-correlation properties. The proposed scheme is then generalized to a multiuser system using the same algebraic constellation and different spreading sequences. We also propose a linear multiuser detector based on the combination of linear decorrelation with respect to all users, and the application of the sphere decoder to decode each user separately. Finally, we consider the generalization to multipath fading channels where the additional diversity advantage due to multipath is exploited by the sphere decoder, and a method of blind channel estimation based on subspace decomposition is examined.     

A spatial-temporal decorrelating receiver for CDMA systems withbase-station antenna arrays

We investigate multiuser signal detection with a base-station antenna array for a synchronous DS-CDMA uplink using nonorthogonal codes in Rayleigh fading channels. We have developed a new formulation for a spatial-temporal decorrelating detector using the maximum-likelihood criteria. The detector is shown to be near-far resistant. We propose to implement the spatial-temporal decorrelating receiver iteratively by applying the space-alternating generalized expectation-maximization (SAGE) algorithm. Simulation results show that the SAGE-based decorrelating receiver significantly outperforms the conventional single-user receiver and with performance close to that of a spatial-temporal decorrelating receiver with known channel parameters. We have observed that adding base-station antennas can actually improve convergence of the proposed iterative receiver     

频率选择性衰落信道下DS-CDMA系统发射分集技术

本文研究多径频率选择性衰落信道下,DS-CDMA系统开环发射分集技术.提出了一种将线性多用户检测与发射分集相结合的新方法,该方法能在克服信道衰落的同时抑制多址干扰和码间串扰.针对两种不同的扩频码分配方式,本文分别给出了盲和半盲的信道估计和检测算法.仿真结果表明,本文所提方法的性能优于基于空时分组码的RAKE接收机,特别是存在远近效应时性能改善更大.     

Achieving Single-User Performance in an FEC-Coded DS-CDMA System for Frequency Selective and Flat Fading Channels

This paper presents a reduced-complexity soft-input soft-output trellis/tree multiuser equalizer for an iterative DS-CDMA system undergoing Rayleigh frequency selective fading. The algorithm first expands the equalizer-trellis to an equivalent trellis/tree structure. Then it applies the M-algorithm to the equivalent structure twice, once to reduce the number of states in the trellis and the other to reduce the number of branches emanating from each state. To compute soft-information, the algorithm utilizes not only those fully-extended paths reaching the end of the trellis but also paths that are traversed and discarded in the pruned trellis. Through a simple update-and-discard procedure, reliable soft-information is extracted from discarded paths which enables an extremely large trellis to be successfully decoded with modest complexity. BER performance is presented for a convolutional-coded DS-CDMA system employing random spreading sequences. Our results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is capable of achieving single-user performance with a much reduced complexity. The proposed algorithm can also be applied to reduce the complexity of multiuser detection where the transmission channel is frequency flat. Single-user performance can also be achieved with the proposed technique.     

A new blind receiver for downlink DS-CDMA communications

A linear receiver is proposed for downlink DS-CDMA communications over unknown frequency-selective fading channels. The new receiver exploits the fact that all synchronized downlink signals go through the same channel and recovers the desired signal with a constrained channel equalizer followed by a despreader. Such a scheme allows the receiver to operate blindly in a time varying environment for both periodic CDMA and aperiodic CDMA systems     

Asymptotic Analysis of General Multiuser Detectors in MIMO DS-CDMA Channels

We analyze decoupling structures of MIMO DS-CDMA channels with general multiuser detector front ends, using the replica method, in order to compare the space-time spreading (STS) and time spreading (TS) schemes. In the many- user limit, a MIMO DS-CDMA channel with the STS scheme is decoupled into a bank of single-user SIMO channels. On the other hand, a MIMO DS-CDMA channel with the TS scheme is decoupled into a bank of single-user MIMO channels. In view of performance, the STS scheme outperforms the TS scheme in the fast fading situation if transmit spatial correlations exist. In terms of complexity, the STS scheme does not require any space-time coding. On the other hand, the TS scheme does require space-time coding in order to achieve comparable performance to the STS scheme. The STS scheme improves the performance of communications and reduces the complexity of transmitter and receiver architectures.     

A robust adaptive DFE receiver for DS-CDMA systems under multipathfading channels

This paper presents a novel receiver design from signal processing viewpoint for direct-sequence code-division multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems under multipath fading channels. A robust adaptive decision-feedback equalizer (DFE) is developed by using optimal filtering technique via minimizing the mean-square error (MSE). The multipath fading channels are modeled as tapped-delay-line filters, and the tap coefficients are described as Rayleigh distributions in order to imitate the frequency-selective fading channel. Then, a robust Kalman filtering algorithm is used to estimate the channel responses for the adaptation of the proposed DFE receiver under the situation of partially known channel statistics. The feedforward and feedback filters are designed by using not only the estimated channel responses but the uncertainties and error covariance of channel estimation as well. As shown in the computer simulations, the proposed adaptive DFE receiver is robust against the estimation errors and modeling dynamics of the channels. Hence, it is very suitable for receiver design in data transmissions through multipath fading channels encountered in most wireless communication systems     

Interference suppression for space-time coded CDMA via decision-feedback equalization

A single-user receiver structure is proposed for space-time coded code-division multiple-access (CDMA) downlink in a multiuser frequency-selective channel. This structure is a two-dimensional (2-D) decision-feedback equalizer (2D-DFE) whose filters are optimized based on the MMSE criterion to mitigate noise, intersymbol interference (ISI), and multiuser interference (MUI) with a moderate complexity. By modeling the spreading codes of the interfering users as random sequences, system performance was evaluated using the Gaussian approximation. Two models for the desired user's spreading sequence have been considered and compared. Our numerical results show that in both cases the 2D-DFE exhibits significant performance improvement over the standard space-time coded RAKE, especially in interference-limited conditions. It is also observed that the gain obtained by using DFE in a MISO channel is less that in a SISO channel and this problem can be solved by providing diversity at the receiver.     

A space-time channel estimator and single-user receiver for code-reuse DS-CDMA systems

A blind asynchronous single-user code-reuse direct sequence code division multiple access (CDMA) array receiver is proposed for the uplink. By assigning each short PN-code more than once, code reuse allows the number of active users to be increased beyond the spreading gain. The proposed receiver is based on a blind single-code multipath joint space-time channel estimation technique that utilizes the concept of the spatio-temporal array manifold, in conjunction with a novel preprocessor, to deal with the multipath problem. From the estimated space-time channel parameters of a particular active code, the subset of parameters of a specific co-code user is then identified, and a single-user receiving weight vector is finally formed. The proposed approach is a subspace type method, and therefore, it is "near-far" resistant. Furthermore, in contrast to existing receivers such as the space-time decorrelating detector, the proposed receiver weight vector is tolerant to partial channel estimation errors and the incomplete estimation of channel parameters. The theoretical framework is supported by computer simulation studies.     

Subspace methods for blind joint channel estimation and multiuser detection in CDMA systems

Recently developed subspace techniques for blind adaptive multiuser detection are briefly reviewed first. In particular, blind methods based on signal subspace tracking for adapting linear multiuser detectors in AWGN CDMA channels are considered, as well as extensions of these techniques to frequency selective fading channels, dispersive channels, and antenna array spatial processing. In addition, subspace‐based nonlinear adaptive techniques for robust blind multiuser detection in non‐Gaussian ambient noise channels are also described. Several new techniques are then developed within the subspace framework for blind joint channel estimation and multiuser detection, under some specific channel conditions. These include (1) an adaptive receiver structure for joint multiuser detection and equalization in dispersive CDMA channels, (2) a subspace method for joint multiuser detection and equalization in unknown correlated noise, and (3) a method for joint interference suppression and channel tracking in time‐varying fading channels. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Suboptimal multiuser detector for frequency-selective Rayleighfading synchronous CDMA channels

Proposes a suboptimal low-complexity multiuser receiver for synchronous CDMA frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channels. In contrast to the conventional RAKE receiver, which suffers from near-far effects due to channel fading, the proposed multiuser receiver is shown to alleviate the near-far problem while preserving multipath diversity gain. This is demonstrated by comparing the symbol error probability and asymptotic multiuser efficiency of the proposed multiuser detector and RAKE receiver     

Long codes for generalized FH-OFDMA through unknown multipathchannels

A generalized frequency-hopping (GFH) orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access (OFDMA) system is developed in this paper as a structured long code direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) system in order to bridge frequency-hopped multicarrier transmissions with long code DS-CDMA. Through judicious code design, multiuser interference is eliminated deterministically in the presence of unknown frequency-selective multipath channels. Thanks to frequency-hopping, no single user suffers from consistent fading effects and constellation-irrespective channel identifiability is guaranteed regardless of channel nulls. A host of blind channel estimation algorithms are developed trading off complexity with performance. Two important variants, corresponding to slow- and fast-hopping, are also addressed with the latter offering symbol recovery guarantees. Performance analysis and simulation results illustrate the merits of GFH-OFDMA relative to conventional OFDMA and long code DS-CDMA with pseudorandom noise codes and RAKE reception