Single-user detectors for multiuser channels

Optimum decentralized demodulation for asynchronous Gaussian multiaccess channels is considered. It is assumed that the receiver is the destination of the information transmitted by only one active user, and single-user detectors that take into account the existence of the other active users in the channel are obtained. The problem considered is one of signal detection in additive colored nonGaussian noise, and attention is focused on one-shot structures where detection of each symbol is based only on the received process during its corresponding interval. Particular emphasis is placed on asymptotically optimum detectors for weak interferers, for CDMA (code-division multiple-access) signature waveforms with long spreading codes, and for low background Gaussian noise level