Multiuser detection scheme based on canceling cochannel interference for MFSK/FH-SSMA system

The paper proposes and investigates a multiuser detection scheme based on canceling cochannel interference (CCI) to improve spectral efficiency or to increase user capacity in an MFSK (multilevel frequency shift keying)/FH-SSMA (frequency hopping-spread spectrum multiple access) system. In the MFSK/FH-SSMA system, an address code is employed as a hopping sequence to hop the carrier frequency in MFSK. In the proposed scheme, it is assumed that the address codes of all users in MFSK/FH-SSMA are known. Then, candidates of the transmitted vector which are regenerated from the time-frequency matrices decoded by all the users´ address codes are added with logical OR operation to produce candidates of the received matrix. The candidates of the received matrix are utilized in order to estimate a pattern of all users´ data symbols which has the most number of coincident entries with the received matrix. Its BER (bit error rate) performance is evaluated by theoretical analysis and computer simulation in order to show the improvement of user capacity. Moreover, the authors investigate a hybrid scheme combining a multiuser detection scheme and the decoding scheme of an error-correcting code for the coded MFSK/FH-SSMA system