A Suboptimal Receiver for WCDMA Systems

Abstract

As a new type of a linear decorrelating receiver, the Pseudo-Decorrelator was presented for asynchronous code division multiple access system by one of authors. In this paper, the concept of the Pseudo-Decorrelator is extended to derive a suboptimal receiver for WCDMA uplink systems in a Rayleigh fading environment. Starting with the analysis of the multiple access components of the decision statistics, a non-square cross-correlation matrix for each bit is obtained. This cross-correlation matrix is then inverted and the inverted matrix is applied to the decision statistics obtained from a conventional receiver. Simulation results are presented for K-user systems over a Rayleigh fading channel. The effects of the synchronization errors, such as time delays and carrier phase errors, are also examined through simulations.