Performance comparison between pilot symbol assisted and blind beamformer-RAKE receivers at the reverse link of third generation CDMA system

Author

Alam, Fakhrul ; Zahid, K.A. ; Woerner, Brian D. ; Reed, Jeffrey H.

Author_Institution

Bradley Dept. of Electr. Eng., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

353

Abstract

A beamformer-RAKE receiver allows processing of the signal in both the spatial and temporal domain by combining an adaptive antenna array with a RAKE. This can significantly improve the system performance along the reverse link of a wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) system by providing multiple access interference (MAI) suppression and multipath diversity. We compare the performance of two different beamformer-RAKE receivers that employ the minimum mean square error (MUSE) and the maximum signal to interference and noise ratio (MSINR) criteria to form the beams in the spatial domain. The pilot symbol assisted (PSA) technique and the blind code gated algorithm (CGA) were selected to exploit the aforementioned criteria.

Keywords

adaptive antenna arrays; array signal processing; cellular radio; code division multiple access; diversity reception; interference suppression; least mean squares methods; radio links; radio receivers; 3G cellular radio systems; 3G mobile communications; MMSE; W-CDMA; adaptive antenna array; beamformer-RAKE receiver; blind code gated algorithm; maximum signal to interference and noise ratio; minimum mean square error; multipath diversity; multiple access interference suppression; pilot symbol assisted technique; reverse link; spatial domain; temporal domain; third generation CDMA system; wideband code division multiple access; Adaptive arrays; Antenna arrays; Diversity reception; Multiaccess communication; Multiple access interference; RAKE receivers; Receiving antennas; Signal processing; System performance; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Fall. IEEE VTS 54th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7005-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTC.2001.956618

Filename

956618