Title : 
A merger of maximum noise fraction beam forming and MC-CDMA systems: perturbation analysis in dispersive channels
         
        
            Author : 
Zekavat, Seyed Alireza ; Emdad, Fatemeh ; Kirby, Michael
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Michigan Technol. Univ., Houghton, MI, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We study a novel merger of adaptive smart antenna maximum noise fraction (MNF) beam forming and multi carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) systems (MNF/MC-CDMA). MNF maximizes the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and leads to a generalized singular value (GSVD) problem. Here, we discuss MNF capability in signal separation considering a perturbed covariance matrix for the observed and the noise signals in dispersive channels.
         
        
            Keywords : 
adaptive antenna arrays; array signal processing; code division multiple access; covariance matrices; dispersive channels; radiofrequency interference; singular value decomposition; source separation; MC-CDMA system; SNR; adaptive smart antenna maximum noise fraction beam forming; dispersive channels; generalized singular value problem; multicarrier code division multiple access system; noise signal; perturbation analysis; perturbed covariance matrix; signal separation; signal-to-noise ratio; Adaptive arrays; Corporate acquisitions; Covariance matrix; Dispersion; Interference; Multiaccess communication; Multicarrier code division multiple access; Signal to noise ratio; Source separation; Structural beams;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Signals, Systems and Computers, 2004. Conference Record of the Thirty-Seventh Asilomar Conference on
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-8104-1
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ACSSC.2003.1291988