Blind Adaptive Multiuser Detection

Michael Honig, Upamanyu Madhow, Sergio Verdú

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Abstract

The decorrelating detector and the linear minimum mean-square error (MMSE) detector are known to be effective strategies to counter the presence of multiuser interference in code-division multiple-access channels; in particular, those multiuser detectors provide optimum near-far resistance. When training data sequences are available, the MMSE multiuser detector can be implemented adaptively without knowledge of signature waveforms or received amplitudes. This paper introduces an adaptive multiuser detector which converges (for any initialization) to the MMSE detector without requiring training sequences. This blind multiuser detector requires no more knowledge than does the conventional single-user receiver: the desired user's signature waveform and its timing. The proposed blind multiuser detector is made robust with respect to imprecise knowledge of the received signature waveform of the user of interest.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)944-960
Number of pages17
JournalIEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Volume41
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1995

Funding

Manuscript received July 14, 1994; revised February 4, 1995. This work was supported by Bellcore and by the U.S. Army Research Office under Grant DAAHW-93-G-0219. The material in this paper was presented in part at the 1994 Globecom Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 30-December 2, 1994. M. L. Honig is with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestem University, Evanston, IL 60208 USA. U. Madhow is with the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 USA. S. Verdd is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA. IEEE Log Number 9412246.

Keywords

  • Multiuser detection
  • blind equalization
  • code-division multiple access
  • minimum mean-square error detection
  • multiple-access channels

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Library and Information Sciences

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