Adaptive receiver for DS/CDMA multiuser communications

In code division multiple access (CDMA) mobile communication systems with time-varying multipath channels, both intersymbol interference (ISI) and multiple-access interference (MAI) must be considered. The multipath effect usually change the characteristics of the spreading codes. Modification of the conventional receiver structure is needed to account for the interference of the multipath fading. This paper proposes an adaptive receiver for such multiuser direct sequence (DS) CDMA systems in multipath fading. We also analyze the mean square error (MSE) performances of the proposed receiver and the conventional receiver. Both the MSE analysis and simulation results show that the performance of the proposed receiver are better than that of the conventional receiver.