FREQUENCY-DOMAIN APPROACH TO DS-CDMA MULTIUSER DETECTION OVER FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE SLOWLY FA.pdfVIP

FREQUENCY-DOMAIN APPROACH TO DS-CDMA MULTIUSER DETECTION OVER FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE SLOWLY FADING CHANNELS Cha’o-Ming Chang 1 and Kwang-Cheng Chen 2 Institute of Communications Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. 1 lepidus@santos.ee.ntu.edu.tw 2 chenkc@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw Abstract - By extending the frequency-domain approach [1] to practical scenarios such as the frequency-selective slowly fading channels, we justify the value of our proposed frequency-domain approach to multiuser detection in the DS-CDMA communications systems. With this frequency- domain approach which maintains the frequency-domain or- thogonality between different users, the DS-CDMA commu- nication is MAI-free even in the frequency-selective slowly fading asynchronous channels. This frequency-domain ap- proach not only saves the cost to maintain synchronous channels as in the practical communications systems em- ploying the time-domain orthogonal codes (e.g. IS-95 and cdma2000), but also enjoys the pretty low complexity prop- erties as in the conventional point-to-point communications, which holds many desirable properties attractive to the prac- tical communications systems. Keywords - Frequency-domain approach, multiuser detec- tion, frequency-selective channels, and OFDM. I. INTRODUCTION Owing to its narrow-band interference suppression ability and its nature to mitigate channel fading impairment, direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) commu- nication has become one of the most important technology and has been extensively applied in many wireless commu- nications systems, such as the CDMA cellular IS-95 and the third generation cellular (3G) systems known as IMT-2000. However, because users transmit information spread by their designed signature sequences over the same frequency band simultaneously, the wide-band interference from other users (known as multiple access interference (MAI)) might severely degrade the reception of the desired signal and th