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Analysis of Multilevel-Quantized Soft-Limiting Detector for an FH-SSMA System Jian F. Weng, Guo Q. Xue, Tho Le-Ngoc, and Sofiene` Tahar Dept. of Electrical Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Canada email: jfweng, xue, tho, tahar
@ece.concordia.ca Abstract: In this paper, a multilevel-quantized soft- lim- pect that the SL might outperform the HL in suppressing iting (SL-MQ) detector for frequency hopping spread spec- the non-Gaussian interference in FH-SSMA system. trum multiple access (FH-SSMA) system is proposed and In this paper, we examine the performance of multilevel- analyzed. Numerical and simulation results in frequency quantized soft-limiting (SL-MQ) detector in FH-SSMA sys- selective Rayleigh fading channels show that as compared tem. Here, the quantization is considered for the purpose to the hard-limiting (HL) detector, the new SL-MQ with of implementing a digital detector. Furthermore, as to be   can improve the system capacity by almost  shown in the paper, the SL-MQ can reflect the HL [2] or at the bit error rate level of   . Furthermore, the per- the pure SL by setting the number of levels ( ) to 2 or in- formance of the SL-MQ has low sensitivity to the optimum creasing it to  , respectively. Numerical and simulation value of the amplitude threshold so that it can tolerate inac- results in frequency selective Rayleigh fading channels are curate estimate of its optimum in practice. presented and they show that the SL-MQ can outperform the HL. In particular, at the bit error rate level of   ,