Blind joint information and spreading sequence estimation for short-code DS-SS signal in asynchronous and synchronous systems

The problem of blind despreading of short-code direct sequence spread-spectrum signal in asynchronous or synchronous system is considered. A novel blind estimation algorithm for time offset, spreading and information sequences is presented in this paper. Firstly, the received signal is divided into two-information-period-length temporal vectors overlapped by one-information-period and accumulates these vectors one by one to form the accumulated matrix. The algorithm exploits an unbiased estimation of user’s time offset to realize synchronization blindly, and an operation of singular value decomposition is applied to the intercepted matrix, which is intercepted from the accumulated matrix according to user’s time offset. Lastly, the spreading sequence is recovered from a right singular vector blindly; therefore, the shortcomings of traditional algorithms, such as phase ambiguity when make use of two vectors to form the spreading sequence, are avoided. And the information sequence is then recovered blindly from the left singular vector. Simulation results show that the new method is capable of retrieving time offset, the spreading and information sequences with higher accuracy than previous methods.