Adaptive detection for DS-CDMA

A review of adaptive detection techniques for direct-sequence code division multiple access (CDMA) signals is given. The goal is to improve CDMA system performance and capacity by reducing interference between users. The techniques considered are implementations of multiuser receivers, for which background material is given. Adaptive algorithms improve the feasibility of such receivers. Three main forms of receivers are considered. The minimum mean square error (MMSE) receiver is described and its performance illustrated. Numerous adaptive algorithms can be used to implement the MMSE receiver, including blind techniques, which eliminate the need for training sequences. The adaptive decorrelator can be used to eliminate interference from known interferers, though it is prone to noise enhancement. Multistage and successive interference cancellation techniques reduce interference by cancellation of one detected signal from another. Practical problems and some open research topics are mentioned. These typically relate to the convergence rate and tracking performance of the adaptive algorithm     

Reference Symbol Assisted Multi-Stage Successive Interference Cancellation for CDMA Wireless Communication: Robustness to Parameter Imperfections with Biphase and Quadriphase spreading

This paper investigates the sensitivity to system imperfections of a reference symbol assisted multi-stage successive interference cancelling (RAMSIC) receiver. Reverse link of a CDMA system with binary antipodal modulation and coherent detection is considered. Performance of systems using either biphase and quadriphase spreading is compared under different operating conditions. Analysis of a conventional matched filter receiver operating on an AWGN channel reveals that when the number of users is small (such that the multiple access interference cannot be accurately modelled as Gaussian), quadriphase spreading has a significant advantage over biphase spreading. This advantage, however, disappears when the number of users per sector is large (of the order necessary for the multiple access interference to be considered Gaussian). Results for the RAMSIC receiver with quadriphase spreading, on the other hand, show that for hexagonal cell geometry with path loss exponent of 4 and without any forward error correction coding, the traffic capacity is between 1.17 and 1.67 times that of the IS-95. These numbers represent a significant increase over those obtained with biphase spreading. Further investigation with nonidealized cell geometries and other path loss exponents also shows substantial capacity improvement over that of conventional correlator receivers. Performance losses due to nonideal transmitter power amplifier gating, imperfect power control and synchronization errors in the RAKE receiver are also determined. The results for biphase spreading show that for path loss exponent of 4, imperfect amplifier gating causes relatively minor decrease in the traffic capacity, while no such effect is observed for path loss exponents of 2 and 3. As expected, relaxing of power control for both biphase and quadriphase spreading has a similar capacity reducing effect. In spite of these two effects the resultant capacity is still significantly higher than that with the conventional matched filter receiver. Capacity increase with quadriphase over biphase spreading is between 1.4 and 2.0 times. Chip synchronization errors of the order to be expected in a properly designed conventional CDMA system have only minimal effect on performance. Therefore, we conclude that conventional synchronization algorithms should perform adequately with successive interference cancelling receivers considered in the paper.     

Design and analysis of receiver filters for multiple chip-rateDS-CDMA systems

As multimedia applications proliferate, there is a desire to provide wireless transport to information streams with inherently different data rates. Direct-sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) is a natural multiple-access strategy for multiple data-rate systems. Previous work on multirate DS-CDMA receivers has focused on signal-processing techniques, which detect all users of all rates simultaneously. In the current work, multirate users have multiple bandwidths. Thus, it is proposed to exploit bandwidth differences to achieve frequency-based rate separation followed by single-rate detection schemes. Such a methodology enables a tradeoff between receiver complexity and performance. The performance of the proposed filters and receivers are derived for both a modified matched filter and modified decorrelator employing rate separation. The performance of a multirate CDMA overlay system is evaluated. In addition, chip pulse shaping for wide-band users is developed to improve performance for narrow-band users for the overlay system     

Fast stochastic power control algorithms for nonlinear multiuser receivers

Uplink communication in a cellular radio network is considered where the base station in each cell employs linear or nonlinear (decision feedback) multiuser receivers. For any such receiver, the problem of interest is that of minimizing the total transmit power under the constraint that all the users of the network achieve their quality-of-service objective in terms of signal-to-interference ratio (SIR). When the solution is feasible for the desired SIR requirements, the optimum powers are computed with a distributed iterative power control strategy suitable for implementation at each base station. While the deterministic algorithm requires both in-cell and out-of-cell user information, the stochastic algorithm proposed in this paper can be implemented at the base stations in a truly distributed manner requiring knowledge of only in-cell parameters. Such an algorithm was proposed previously for the case where base stations use linear (single user) matched filter (MF) receivers. However, the feasibility region in terms of attainable SIRs for a well-designed multiuser receiver, particularly for a nonlinear receiver that employs decision feedback, is generally much larger than it is for the linear MF receiver. The stochastic power control algorithm in this paper, for linear or nonlinear multiuser receivers, converges in the mean-square sense to the minimal powers when the target SIRs are feasible. The second major focus of this paper is to improve the convergence properties of the conventional stochastic approximation based power control strategy by using the more recent results on averaging. Convergence issues of both the "nonaveraged" and "averaged" algorithms are investigated, and numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the performance improvement due to averaging.     

Multi-access Interference Cancellation Receiver for Time-Hopping Ultra Wideband Communication

In this paper, a low complexity coherent joint maximum-likelihood detection receiver is developed for canceling multi-access interference in impulse radio (IR) based ultra wideband (UWB) wireless communication systems. Unlike previous joint demodulation receivers, where the complexity is enormous and the other users’ codes are required, the proposed approach does not need to know the time hopping (TH) codes of the other users which makes it a very attractive solution. The performance of joint demodulation receiver depends on the ability to estimate the channel coefficients of desired and interfering users. A novel and practical algorithm for estimating multiple users’ channel responses is developed. The performance of the proposed algorithms are tested through computer simulations and the results are compared with the performance of the conventional single user UWB receiver. It is observed that the proposed joint demodulation receiver provides significant performance gains with respect to conventional single user receiver. This paper is presented in part in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2004, Paris, France.     

Space-Time Receiver for Multi-Rate CDMA Systems: Multi-Code and Variable Spreading Length Access Methods Comparison

This work proposed the linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) space-timereceivers for synchronous multi-rate direct sequence code devision multipleaccess (DS/CDMA) systems. The performance of the proposed receivers isanalyzed. The high-rate (HR) LMMSE space-time receiver with combiningtechnique can provide essentially the same performance for low-rate (LR) usersas LR LMMSE space-time receiver while eliminate the time delay for the HRusers. The performance of the proposed multi-rate LMMSE space-time receiversare studied in the context of two multi-rate access methods: multi-code (MC)access where high data rate users multiplex their information streams ontomultiple codes, and variable spreading length (VSL) access where signaturesequences of different lengths are assigned to users with different datarates.Through the simulation results, we show that: (a) the proposed multi-rateLMMSE space-time receivers are optimum near-far resistant; (b) the proposedmulti-rate LMMSE space-time receivers have a clear performance improvementcompared to the time only LMMSE dual rate receiver; (c) there is a performancegain of the proposed multi-rate LMMSE space-time receivers compared to themulti-rate decorrelating space-time receiver when near-far ratio (NFR) is low;(d) The performance difference between MMSE combining and MRC in multi-ratesystem is much more pronounced than in single-rate system. Simulations alsoshow that the VSL access method is more robust than MC access methodconsidering changing rate-ratio in multi-rate systems.     

Optimal decorrelating receivers for DS-CDMA systems: a signalprocessing framework

Code division multiple access (CDMA) schemes allow a number of asynchronous users to share a transmission medium with minimum cooperation among them. However, sophisticated signal processing algorithms are needed at the receiver to combat interference from other users and multipath effects. A discrete-time multirate formulation is introduced for asynchronous CDMA systems, which can incorporate multipath effects. This formulation reveals interesting links between CDMA receivers and array processing problems. In this framework, linear receivers are derived that can completely suppress multiuser interference (decorrelating receivers). A criterion is introduced, which guarantees the decorrelating property, while providing optimal solutions in the presence of noise. Parametric FIR designs as well as nonparametric solutions are delineated, and their performance is analyzed. The proposed receivers are resistant to near-far effects and do not require the estimation of the users' and noise powers     

MIMO antenna selection with lattice-reduction-aided linear receivers

A method to improve the performance of multiple-input-multiple-output systems is to employ a large number of antennas and select the optimal subset depending on the specific channel realization. A simple antenna-selection criterion is to choose the antenna subset that maximizes the mutual information. However, when the receiver has finite complexity decoders, this criterion does not necessarily minimize the error rate (ER). Therefore, different selection criteria should be tailored to the specific receiver implementation. In this paper, we develop new antenna-selection criteria to minimize the ER in spatial multiplexing systems with lattice-reduction-aided receivers. We also adapt other known selection criteria, such as maximum mutual information, to this specific receiver. Moreover, we consider adaptive antenna-selection algorithms when the channel is not perfectly known at the receiver but can only be estimated. We present simulation examples to show the ER of the different selection criteria and the convergence of the adaptive algorithms. We also discuss the difference in complexity and performance among them.     

Linear multiuser receivers: effective interference, effectivebandwidth and user capacity

Multiuser receivers improve the performance of spread-spectrum and antenna-array systems by exploiting the structure of the multiaccess interference when demodulating the signal of a user. Much of the previous work on the performance analysis of multiuser receivers has focused on their ability to reject worst case interference. Their performance in a power-controlled network and the resulting user capacity are less well-understood. We show that in a large system with each user using random spreading sequences, the limiting interference effects under several linear multiuser receivers can be decoupled, such that each interferer can be ascribed a level of effective interference that it provides to the user to be demodulated. Applying these results to the uplink of a single power-controlled cell, we derive an effective bandwidth characterization of the user capacity: the signal-to-interference requirements of all the users can be met if and only if the sum of the effective bandwidths of the users is less than the total number of degrees of freedom in the system. The effective bandwidth of a user depends only on its own SIR requirement, and simple expressions are derived for three linear receivers: the conventional matched filter, the decorrelator, and the MMSE receiver. The effective bandwidths under the three receivers serve as a basis for performance comparison     

Blind successive interference cancellation for DS-CDMA systems

We propose a blind successive interference cancellation receiver for asynchronous direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) systems using a maximum mean energy (MME) optimization criterion. The covariance matrix of the received vector is used in conjunction with the MME criterion to realize a blind successive interference canceler that is referred to as the BIC-MME receiver. The receiver executes interference cancellation in a successive manner, starting with the most dominant interference component and successively cancelling the weaker ones. The receiver is compared against various centralized and decentralized receivers, and it is shown to perform well in the presence of estimation errors of the covariance matrix, making it suitable for application in time-varying channels. We also analyze properties of the covariance matrix estimates which are relevant to the performance of the BIC-MME receiver. Further, the BIC-MME receiver is particularly efficient in the presence of a few strong interferers as may be the case in the downlink of DS-CDMA systems where intracell user transmissions are orthogonal. An iterative implementation that results in reduced complexity is also studied     

Interference cancellation for cellular systems: a contemporary overview

Cellular networks today are interference-limited and only becomes increasingly so in the future due to the many users that need to share the spectrum to achieve high-rate multimedia communication. Despite the enormous amount of academic and industrial research in the past 20 years on interference-aware receivers and the large performance improvements promised by these multi-user techniques, today's receivers still generally treat interference as background noise. In this article, we enumerate the reasons for this widespread scepticism, and discuss how current and future trends increases the need for and viability of multi-user receivers for both the uplink, where many asynchronous users are simultaneously detected, and the downlink, where users are scheduled and largely orthogonalized; but the mobile handset still needs to cope with a few dominant interfering base stations. New results for interference cancelling receivers that use conventional front-ends are shown to alleviate many of the shortcomings of prior techniques, particularly for the challenging uplink. This article gives an overview of key recent research breakthroughs on interference cancellation and highlights system-level considerations for future multi-user receivers.     

MMSE receivers for multirate DS-CDMA systems

Minimum-mean squared error (MMSE) receivers are designed and analyzed for multiple data rate direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) systems. The inherent cyclostationarity of the DS-CDMA signal is exploited to construct receivers for asynchronous multipath channels. Multiple- and single-bandwidth access are treated for both single and multicarrier scenarios. In general, the optimal receiver is periodically time-varying. When the period of the optimal receiver is large, suboptimal receivers are proposed to achieve a lower complexity implementation; the receivers are designed as a function of the cyclic statistics of the signals. In multiple chipping rate systems, the complexity of receivers for smaller bandwidth users can also be controlled by changing their front-end filter bandwidth. The effect of front-end filter bandwidth on receiver performance and system capacity is quantified for a variable chipping rate system. Analysis and simulation show that significant performance gains are realized by the periodically time-varying MMSE receivers over their time-invariant counterparts     

Neural networks for multiuser detection in code-divisionmultiple-access communications

Two simple structures employing multilayer perceptrons are proposed for demodulation of spread-spectrum signals in both synchronous and asynchronous Gaussian channels. The optimum receiver is used to benchmark the performance of the proposed receiver; in particular, it is proved to be instrumental in identifying the decision regions for the neural networks. The neutral networks are trained for the demodulation of signals via backpropagation-type algorithms. A modified backpropagation-type algorithm is introduced for single-user and multiuser detection with near-optimum performance that could have applications in other classification and pattern recognition problems. A comparative performance analysis of the three receivers, optimum, conventional, and the one employing neural networks, is carried out via Monte Carlo simulations. An importance sampling technique is employed to reduce the number of simulations necessary to evaluate the performance of these receivers in a multiuser environment. In examples given, the receiver significantly outperforms the conventional receiver     

Large system performance of linear multiuser receivers in multipathfading channels

A linear multiuser receiver for a particular user in a code-division multiple-access (CDMA) network gains potential benefits from knowledge of the channels of all users in the system. In fast multipath fading environments we cannot assume that the channel estimates are perfect and the inevitable channel estimation errors will limit this potential gain. We study the impact of channel estimation errors on the performance of linear multiuser receivers, as well as the channel estimation problem itself. Of particular interest are the scalability properties of the channel and data estimation algorithms: what happens to the performance as the system bandwidth and the number of users (and hence channels to estimate) grows? Our main results involve asymptotic expressions for the signal-to-interference ratio of linear multiuser receivers in the limit of large processing gain, with the number of users divided by the processing gain held constant. We employ a random model for the spreading sequences and the limiting signal-to-interference ratio expressions are independent of the actual signature sequences, depending only on the system loading and the channel statistics: background noise power, energy profile of resolvable multipaths, and channel coherence time. The effect of channel uncertainty on the performance of multiuser receivers is succinctly captured by the notion of effective interference     

GPS伪卫星信号捕获的仿真分析与研究

GPS伪卫星是模拟GPS卫星信号的地面发射设备。其终端接收设备的射频前端将天线接收到的伪卫星信号变换为中频信号,再经模拟数字转换,便可得捕获的原始信号。采用专用集成电路设计的GPS接收机极大地限制了用户对原始信号的性能分析和新算法的开发,而基于FPGA DSP架构的设计能提高研究的自由度。本文先对GPS伪卫星信号的形成和接收机的结构作扼要介绍,再对伪卫星信号的搜索算法和捕获性能做分析,并通过频域FFT实现仿真。结论表明,通过仿真技术能有效地复现出了捕获的GPS伪卫星信号。     

Sequence estimation techniques for digital subscriber looptransmission with crosstalk interference

The use of reduced-state sequence estimation techniques in a digital subscriber loop receiver is discussed. These techniques offer a potential performance improvement over conventional equalization techniques such as decision feedback equalization (DFE). Stationary and cyclostationary NEXT noise models are described. The theoretical performance obtainable from a Viterbi algorithm receiver with stationary white Gaussian noise, stationary NEXT, and cyclostationary NEXT noise models is estimated, and the reduced-state decision feedback sequence estimation and M algorithms are reviewed. It is shown that the improvement can be especially significant in the presence of cyclostationary crosstalk because of the freedom that sequence estimation receivers afford in the choice of receiver sampling phase. This advantage is evaluated for Viterbi algorithm receivers. By simulation of two practical reduced-state sequence estimation receivers, it is demonstrated that, in the presence of cyclostationary crosstalk, a substantial increase in maximum loop range (or equivalently, maximum bit rate) may be achievable compared to conventional DFE equalization     

Effective interference and effective bandwidth of linear multiuserreceivers in asynchronous CDMA systems

The performance of linear multiuser receivers in terms of the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) achieved by the users has been analyzed in a synchronous CDMA system under random spreading sequences. In this paper, we extend these results to a symbol-asynchronous but chip-synchronous system and characterize the SIR for linear receivers-the matched-filter receiver the minimum mean-square error (MMSE) receiver and the decorrelator. For each of the receivers, we characterize the limiting SIR achieved when the processing gain is large and also derive lower bounds on the SIR using the notion of effective interference. Applying the results to a power controlled system, we derive effective bandwidths of the users for these linear receivers and characterize the user capacity region: a set of users is supportable by a system if the sum of the effective bandwidths is less than the processing gain of the system. We show that while the effective bandwidth of the decorrelator and the MMSE receiver is higher in an asynchronous system than that in a synchronous system, it progressively decreases with the increase in the length of the observation window and is asymptotic to that of the synchronous system, when the observation window extends infinitely on both sides of the symbol of interest. Moreover, the performance gap between the MMSE receiver and the decorrelator is significantly wider in the asynchronous setting as compared to the synchronous case     

Differential and coherent decorrelating multiuser receivers for space-time-coded CDMA systems

Previously, we proposed a differential space-code modulation (DSCM) scheme that integrates the strength of differential space-time coding and spreading to achieve interference suppression and resistance to time-varying channel fading in single-user environments. In this paper, we consider the problem of multiuser receiver design for code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems that utilize DSCM for transmission. In particular, we propose two differential receivers for such systems. These differential receivers do not require the channel state information (CSI) for detection and, still, are resistant to multiuser interference (MUI) and time-varying channel fading. We also propose a coherent receiver that requires only the CSI of the desired user for detection. The coherent receiver yields improved performance over the differential receivers when reliable channel estimates are available (e.g., in slowly fading channels). The proposed differential/coherent receivers are decorrelative schemes that decouple the detection of different users. Both long and short spreading codes can be employed in these schemes. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed receivers.     

感知无线电中利用信号量的接受检测

Interference from secondary users to primary users should be avoided in cognitive radio. However, it is difficult to solve the interference problem if the secondary users cannot get the information of the primary receivers. Insufficient information of primary users would result in inaccurate spectrum detecting result. To deliver the information of primary users, Receiver Detection Employing Semaphore (ReDES) is proposed in this paper. Primary receiver informs secondary users of its licensed receive frequency according to semaphore architecture directly in ReDES. The semaphore is used to determine the spectrum holes by secondary users. Frequency mapping method is come up with as a realization of ReDES. The procedure and the detailed techniques are illustrated to make ReDES scheme reasonable and feasible. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can effectively detect the frequencies of primary receivers, and improve the accuracy of spectrum detection.     

Performance of antenna diversity multiuser receivers in CDMA channels with imperfect fading estimation

The performance of antenna diversity coherent and differentially coherent linear multiuser receivers is analyzed in frequency-nonselective Rayleigh fading CDMA channels with memory. The estimates of the complex fading processes are utilized for maximal-ratio combining and carrier recovery of the coherent multiuser receiver. To analyze the impact of channel estimation errors on the receiver performance, error probability is assessed directly in terms of the fading rate and the number of active users, showing the penalty imposed by imperfect channel estimation as well as the fading-induced error probability floor. The impact of fading dynamics on the differentially coherent decorrelating receiver with equal-gain combining is quantified. While performance of multiuser receivers at lower SNR is determined by both the fading dynamics and the number of active CDMA users, performance at higher SNR is given by an error probability floor which is due to fading only and has the same value as in a single-user case. The comparison of the two receiver structures indicates that the coherent decorrelating receiver with diversity reception may be preferable to the differentially coherent one in nonselective fading CDMA channels with memory.