Interference Cancellation in CDMA Systems Using Multiple Receive Antennas.pdf

Interference Cancellation in CDMA Systems Using Multiple Receive Antennas Tao Wu, Christian Schlegel Dept. of Electrical Engineering University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Phone: (801)581-5561, Fax: (801)581-5281 Email: twu@, schlegel@ Abstract A multiple receive antenna (MRA) system is studied for code division multiple access (CDMA) using pseudo-random spreading codes. The core component, the receiver, jointly processes the multiple antenna array signals, despreading and error control code metric generation. Interference from joint users is cancelled by the projection method, where the signals are projected away from the interfering signal space. This method requires knowledge of the array response vectors, which is acquired via blind subspace estimation techniques. It is shown that the increase in system capacity is linear to the number of receive antennas. Performance analysis and simulation results are given to substantiate these ndings. 1 Introduction Mobile wireless communication systems are rapidly evolving from second generation to third generation (3G). Code division multiple access technology has been adopted by the major 3G standards, such as cdma2000 [1] and WCDMA (Wideband CDMA) [2, 3]. An important advantage of 3G systems is the provision of high data rate, high capacity and advanced services, such as video and packet data. This requires new technologies in the receiver design. Among these technologies, multiuser detection and multiple receive antennas are under intensive research for this purpose. Multiuser detection seeks to improve performance by cancellation or joint detection of interfering signals and thus increasing the system capacity. MRA, on the other hand, increase signal dimensionality and have the potential to improve dramatically the system capacity. Therefore, they are very likely candidates in future wireless communication systems. There has been a signicant amount of work on receivers exploring interference can- cellation in on