A two-dimensional RAKE receiver architecture with an FFT-based matched filtering

This work proposes a two-dimensional (2-D) RAKE receiver, which is a spatial-temporal matched filter implemented in the frequency domain. To form a beam pattern, we calculate the spatial frequency spectra of received signals on the antenna array using fast Fourier transform (FFT). After FFT beamforming, a bank of FFT-based matched filters is used to perform code matching. Afterward, the code-matched signals are summed up with maximal-ratio combining through a spatial-temporal channel-matched filter implemented in the frequency domain. This 2-D RAKE receiver includes a channel sounder that is used to estimate the spatial and temporal channel impulse response parameters, such as delays, directions of arrivals, and complex gains of multipath components. Monte Carlo simulations have been used to evaluate the receiver bit-error rate performance in both static channel and mobile radio channel environments. Simulation results show that the RAKE receiver performs well in both kinds of channels.     

基于快速解扩滤波器优化的DS-CDMA多用户干扰抑制

该文提出了一种新的DS-CDMA信号检测方法,采用正交锚定的旁瓣抵消器结构和训练序列,基于最小滤波器输出能量准则,实现了解扩滤波器快速非自适应优化,并通过测定码匹配滤波器输出的信号干扰噪声比,有效控制了码匹配滤波器失配对滤波器优化的影响,从而实现了稳健的多用户联合信道干扰抑制。进一步采用RAKE技术,提高了Rayleigh衰落信道中接收机的性能。     

A receiver of simple structure for antenna array CDMA systems

In code division multiple access systems, the two-dimensional (2-D) RAKE structure had been proposed using multiple antennas to increase the capacity. It consists of multiple fingers of a beamformer and a correlator. In this paper, we consider a simpler receiver structure. We only use one finger, which consists of one pair of spatial and temporal filters to combine signals. It is shown that the performance of the receiver system is comparable with that of the 2-D RAKE receiver. Furthermore, it is observed that the proposed receiver and the 2-D RAKE receiver have limited near-far resistance by the generation of the space domain due to antenna arrays     

A Blind RAKE Receiver With Robust Multiuser Interference Cancelation for DS/CDMA Communications

In this paper, a blind RAKE receiver with robust multiuser access interference cancellation is presented for frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channels. In contrast to a conventional receiver, here, only knowledge of the spreading code and rough timing of the desired user is required. By investigating the code space of the multipath signals and the data vector space, a RAKE filtering vector is developed to extract the desired data from all the paths of the desired user. Our proposed technique not only exploits the characteristics of multipath propagation but also the characteristics of timing offsets that may occur in the receiver, to facilitate the application of a blind linear filter-optimization technique for robust interference suppression. Based on the RAKE filtering vector, interference rejection is implemented by using the auxiliary-vector (AV) technique. Our approach, however, effectively overcomes the sensitivity of the original AV method to multipath propagation and timing offsets. To mitigate the signal cancellation at relatively high signal-to-interference and noise ratios (SINR) resulting from the estimation errors of the RAKE filtering vector, robust strategies are introduced in addition to the linear filter optimization. Simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed techniques.     

A low-complexity combined antenna array and interferencecancellation DS-CDMA receiver in multipath fading channels

A simple direct sequence-code division multiple access receiver that combines adaptive beamforming with parallel interference cancellation in a multipath fading channel is proposed and analyzed. A fast adaptation, conjugate gradient algorithm is used to find the optimum beamformer weights. By beamforming, the desired user's signal is enhanced and the cochannel interference from other directions is reduced. For in-beam multiple access interference reduction, a parallel interference canceller is used in each RAKE finger. In the demodulation process, we propose a new demodulation method in which the incoming signal is correlated with the effecting spreading code rather than the physical spreading code called the effective matched filter. A new combining method called equivalent maximal ratio combining is also proposed and analyzed. The average uncoded bit error rate as a function of the average antenna signal-to-noise ratio and the number of receiving antennas is examined in a frequency selective Rayleigh fading channel for all proposed receiver structures. Both simulation and analysis show an increase in system capacity as a function of the number of antennas and the number of interferers canceled per finger     

A RAKE receiver design for WCDMA FDD uplink with an RLS-based adaptive beamforming scheme

In this paper, we present a RAKE receiver design with adaptive antenna arrays for the wide-band code-division multiple-access (WCDMA) frequency-division duplexing (FDD) uplink. The RLS-based adaptive beamforming scheme is proposed and can be built with the existing one-dimensional RAKE receiver. We adaptively calculate the beamforming weight vector for each multipath of the desired user, and use maximum ratio combining (MRC) to combine each multipath signal in the demodulation process. Two matched filters based on the spreading waveforms are designed in our scheme for WCDMA FDD uplink application. The proposed scheme has the ability of suppressing strong multiuser access interference and the other types of interferers through spatial ing. The tracking capability of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated in the simulation results.     

Near Optimum and Highly Efficient Decision-Feedback Receivers for Direct Sequence Ultra-Wideband Radio

This paper investigates three decision- feedback receivers for Direct-Sequence Ultra-Wideband Radio (DS-UWB) based on two-channel BPSK modulation with ternary spreading code. A compact and insightful vector-matrix signal model is built up for receiver design under UWB channel dispersion over many consecutive symbols. First, we consider the design of a RAKE with Decision Feedback (RAKE-DF) receiver. Using the Gaussian approximation technique, we derive its analytic performance under no error propagation. It is shown that the RAKE-DF receiver suffers from a significant error floor due to the uncancelled pre-cursor ISI (or pre-ISI abbreviated). Next, we design the MMSE-DF receiver to achieve a better performance by suppressing the pre-ISI, too. However, the MMSE receiver requires costly matrix inversion. Then a new receiver is investigated as the third one, which is called the RAKE with Bi-Directional Decision Feedback (RAKE-BDDF) receiver, for efficiently canceling both the post-(cursor) ISI and pre-ISI at symbol rate. It cannot only attain the matched filter bound approximately, but also maintain a similar complexity as that of the RAKE-DF receiver. Simulation and semi-analytic BER curves are included for performance comparison of the three receivers in the presence of the CM2 and CM4 UWB channels.     

Blind RAKE receiver with joint diversity combining and codetracking for DS/SS communication

A RAKE receiver achieving joint blind multipath diversity combining and code tracking is proposed. An improved known modulus adaptive algorithm is exploited to perform multipath diversity combining and to support the modified code tracking in the blind mode. Computer simulation results have indicated very attractive behaviour of the proposed technique     

Field test measurement of DS-CDMA RAKE receiver with TWCL in anurban area

This paper presents field test measurement results from a postdetection RAKE receiver system using a time-window control loop (TWCL). TWCL is a code synchronization scheme, and its performance with delay paths is better than the performance, in terms of acquisition and tracking, without delay paths because of the path-diversity effect. This receiver is suitable for systems that use short spreading codes such as wireless local area networks because it employs a matched filter for despreading. The RAKE method is a simple integral demodulation method used to combine correlation peaks including delay paths in a time window, and two-branch-antenna combining diversity is available. A field test is implemented while walking in an urban area, including the no-line-of-sight situation, taking into consideration microcellular systems. The results show that when the bit error rate is 10^-3 and the spreading-chip rate is 4.096 Mchip/s, path-diversity gain from the theoretical differential quadrature phase-shift keying value is more than 12 dB without antenna diversity. This path-diversity gain value corresponds to a path-diversity reception gain of between two and three. Using two-branch-antenna diversity, the total of path- and antenna-diversity gain is up to 18 dB in the no-line-of-sight situation. From the above results, it is clear that this RAKE receiver is effective even in the no-line-of-sight situation and that TWCL provides good performance under the given field conditions     

On the architecture and performance of an FFT-based spread-spectrumdownlink RAKE receiver

This paper describes a spread-spectrum downlink RAKE receiver that computes data detection in the frequency domain. We assume a pilot signal is transmitted with data signals for channel sounding. The pilot signal does not degrade the receiver bit error rate (BER) performance because the receiver estimates the pilot signal and subtracts the estimated pilot signal from the received signal before data detection. A spreading code matched filter, a channel matched filter, and a sounding receiver are implemented by fast Fourier transform (FFT)-based matched filtering and integrated in a unified architecture. Monte Carlo simulation is used to evaluate the receiver BER performance in both a static channel and a mobile radio channel. Simulation results show that the RAKE receiver performs well in both kinds of channels     

Adaptive parameter estimation using parallel Kalman filtering forspread spectrum code and Doppler tracking

We present a new digital direct-sequence (DS) receiver with joint estimation of code delay, multipath gains and Doppler shift. A parameter estimator consisting of a parallel bank of extended Kalman filters (EKF's) extracts estimates of the timing, τ and the multipath coefficients, f_l distorting the received signal. A “detected” estimate of the Doppler shift, v_r distorting the received signal is also provided by the estimator. We compute the bit error rate that results when a RAKE matched filter uses the estimated parameters to detect the DPSK encoded binary data in the received signal. The bit-error rate (BER) is evaluated, and successful performance of the proposed receiver in the presence of Doppler shift distortion is observed in many cases. We demonstrate that the receiver can operate when the multipath coefficients vary in time (Doppler spread)     

A continuous-time IR-UWB RAKE receiver for coherent symbol detection

The ultra-wide bandwidth released for unlicensed use by FCC a decade ago has initiated significant research efforts. The large ultra-wide bandwidth is attractive not only for increased data transfer speed but may also be exploited for added functionality like high-precision ranging in wireless sensor networks. RAKE based receivers are preferred for ultra-wideband (UWB) technology due to wide bandwidth. However, designing RAKE based correlating receivers remains quite challenging. Correlating receivers are also power consuming due to high-speed DSPs, ADC and matched filter. Timing synchronization is another issue associated with correlating receivers. In this paper a impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) RAKE receiver is presented utilizing a continuous-time binary value coding scheme for power-efficiency and coherent symbol detection without the need for synchronization to achieve precise ranging using time-of-flight technique. A working prototype of the IR ranging transceiver which uses the IR-UWB RAKE receiver is presented with measured high-precision ranging towards 1.4 cm.     

A RAKE Receiver With an ICI/ISI Equalizer for a CCK Modem

In this paper, we first derive the theoretical performance of a complementary code keying (CCK) code on an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel and over a multipath channel. To derive the error performance, we use the weight and cross-correlation distributions of the CCK code for optimal and suboptimal decoding, respectively, based on union bound. In addition, we propose a RAKE receiver for a CCK modem, which is suitable for a multipath environment with a large delay spread. The RAKE receiver principle is acceptable for modest multipath because it can coherently combine multipath components to provide signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) enhancement. However, as the delay spread is larger and the data rate of systems goes higher, intersymbol interference (ISI) generated due to multipath environments are increased. To handle the increasing ISI, the CCK modem needs an equalization technique to remove the ISI, together with RAKE processing. Thus, our proposed system is based on a channel matched filter (CMF) with a decision feedback equalizer (DFE). The CMF is applied for RAKE processing, whereas the DFE structure is used for ISI cancellation. In our system, ISI is calculated and removed by using a decoded CCK codeword.     

An iterative maximum SINR receiver for multicarrier CDMA systems over a multipath fading channel with frequency offset

A robust iterative multicarrier code-division multiple-access (MC-CDMA) receiver with adaptive multiple-access interference (MAI) suppression is proposed for a pilot symbols assisted system over a multipath fading channel with frequency offset. The design of the receiver involves a two-stage procedure. First, an adaptive filter based on the generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) technique is constructed at each finger to perform despreading and suppression of MAI. Second, pilot symbols assisted frequency offset estimation, channel estimation and a RAKE combining give the estimate of signal symbols. In order to enhance the convergence behavior of the GSC adaptive filters, a decisions-aided scheme is proposed, in which the signal waveform is first reconstructed and then subtracted from the input data of the adaptive filters. With signal subtraction, the proposed MC-CDMA receiver can achieve nearly the performance of the ideal maximum signal-to-interference-plus noise ratio receiver assuming perfect channel and frequency offset information. Finally, a low-complexity partially adaptive (PA) realization of the GSC adaptive filters is presented as an alternative to the conventional multiuser detectors. The new PA receiver is shown to be robust to multiuser channel estimation errors and offer nearly the same performance of the fully adaptive receiver.     

Adaptive MMSE maximum likelihood CDMA multiuser detection

The well-known code division multiple access maximum likelihood receiver (MF-ML) uses a bank of matched filters as a generator of sufficient statistics for maximum likelihood detection of users transmitted symbols. In this paper, the bank of matched filters is replaced by a bank of adaptive minimum mean squared error (MMSE) filters as the generator of sufficient statistics. This formal replacement of the MF bank by the adaptive MMSE filter bank has significant conceptual consequences and provides improvement by several performance measures. The adaptive MMSE-ML receiver's digital implementation is significantly computationally simplified. The advantages of the proposed adaptive MMSE-ML receiver over the MF-ML receiver are: (1) ability to perform joint synchronization, channel parameter estimation, and signal detection where the signal is sent over an unknown, slowly time-varying, frequency-selective multipath fading channel; (2) increased information capacity in a multicellular environment; and (3) significantly improved bit error rate (BER) performance in a multicellular mobile communications environment. The information capacity and the BER of the proposed MMSE-ML receiver are analyzed. Numerical results showing the BER performance of the MMSE-ML receiver in a multipath channel environment are presented     

Blind equalization in antenna array CDMA systems

Multipath induced interchip-interference (ICI) alters waveforms of transmitted signals and presents a major obstacle to direct-sequence (DS) code-division-multiple-access (CDMA) communications. For systems with aperiodic pseudorandom (PN) spreading sequences, the primary way to counter fading is through employing RAKE receivers that enhance the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) by combining multipath signals from the desired user. In this paper, we formulate a discrete-time model for antenna array CDMA systems and study the 2-D RAKE receiver problem by casting it into an optimum vector FIR equalizer design and estimation framework. A novel aspect of the present work is the full exploitation of the potential of 2-D RAKE receivers without requiring any detailed knowledge of the multipath channels     

Bidirectional iterative ISI canceller for high-rate DSSS/CCK communications

This paper proposes a new RAKE receiver incorporated with a bidirectional iterative intersymbol interference (ISI) canceller in order to reinforce multipath robustness of high-rate direct-sequence spread-spectrum complementary code keying (DSSS/CCK) systems. The proposed RAKE receiver first combines multipath signal components through a channel matched filter (CMF) and removes postcursor-ISI by employing a codeword decision feedback equalizer (DFE). Then, a CCK codeword detector tentatively determines the current CCK codeword symbol and reuses it to subtract precursor-ISI from the previous symbol. Therefore, the ultimate symbol decision is made using the delayed signal with both postcursor-ISI and precursor-ISI cancelled. The detection performance can be more improved through an iterative refinement processing between the postcursor and the precursor components. Simulation results exhibit a significantly improved error rate performance of the proposed receiver compared with that of the legacy RAKE receiver employing only a postcursor DFE. The additional cost for realization of the proposed receiver is one symbol decision delay and reuse complexity of the DFE and the codeword detector.     

Effects of Nakagami-Fading Parameters and Power Control Error on Performance of DS-CDMA Cellular Systems with Adaptive Beamforming

It is well known that power control error (PCE) is a critical issue in CDMA cellular systems. In this paper, the bit error rate (BER) of a direct sequence-code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) receiver with imperfect power control, adaptive beamforming, and voice activity is derived in frequency-selective Nakagami fading channels. We discuss the effects of PCE, Nakagami-m fading parameter, and channel’s multipath intensity profile as average signal strength and rate of average power decay and their effects on the BER performance of DS-CDMA cellular systems. In this paper, the RAKE receiver consists of three stages. In the first stage, with conjugate gradient adaptive beamforming algorithm, the desired users’ signal in an arbitrary path is passed and the inter-path interference is canceled in other paths in each RAKE finger. Also in this stage, the multiple access interference (MAI) from other users is reduced. Thus, the matched filter (MF) can be used for the MAI reduction in each RAKE finger in the second stage. In the third stage, the output signals from the MFs are combined according to the conventional maximal ratio combining principle and then are fed into the decision circuit for the desired user. How the Nakagami fading parameters, power control imperfections, or the number of resolvable paths affect the reverse link capacity of the system is discussed in detail. Analytical and simulation results are also given for systems with different processing gains and number of BSs in the cell-selection process with various Nakagami fading parameters.     

TDD-CDMA系统的一种新的多径发送分集方案

本文提出了ＴＤＤ－ＣＤＭＡ系统的一种新的多径分集方案。它在发送端采用一个ＦＩＲ滤波器,面在接收端采用ＲＡＫＥ接收机实现多径合并。分析结果表明对ＦＩＲ滤波器的系统进行优化的问题椒于求解矩阵的牲玫特征向量的问题,而最大的特征值所对应的特征向量就是最佳ＦＩＲ滤波器的抽头系数。本文还分析了多天线的情况,此时相当于２维时空信号处理。数值分析表明采用上述方案的系统的输出信噪比（ＳＮＲ）较之通道的ＲＡＫＥ系统或     

Performance of optimum and suboptimum combining at the antennaarray of a W-CDMA system

The performance of an array of antennas combined with a RAKE receiver at the base station of a wideband code division multiple access system with quaternary phase shift keying modulation is investigated for single-user reception. This receiver structure is also known as a multidimensional RAKE receiver. Expressions for the interference correlation matrix are derived, and subsequently, an analysis of the error probability is provided. With regard to antenna weights, the optimum combining linear receiver, which takes into account the spatial distribution of all the users in the system, is compared with the suboptimum combining receiver (SOC), which exploits knowledge of the desired user array vector only. It is shown how the two receivers, ideal in the sense that perfect channel estimation is assumed, achieve very similar performances under realistic conditions. Consequently, the investigated pilot assisted combining receiver, which estimates the channel based on limited overhead, calculates weights according to the SOC strategy by a very simple algorithm