Summary : A two-stage RAKE-receiver for joint data detection and channel parameter estimation based on interference cancellation has been developed for the uplink of a two-user direct sequence code-division multiple access (DS-CDMA) system.
As software simulations have shown, this advanced receiver scheme outperforms conventional schemes in terms of bit-error rate (BER) by far and is robust against the effects of multiple access interference.
To validate the scheme under real conditions, a laboratory demonstrator has been realized consisting of two DS-CDMA transmitters and a two-user base station receiver. The latter comprises a front-end for the down-conversion and baseband processing (A/D conversion, correlation) of the users' incoming signals and a DSP-board on which the detection and estimation algorithms, based on the correlator outputs, are implemented in software. Currently, the system is in the debugging phase.
A study for the feasibility of an ASIC implementation of the scheme has come to the conclusion that such a realization is feasible with today's technology.
The integration of the developed scheme into a base station receiver of a mobile communications system adopting CDMA as access technique would considerably reduce the requirements a power control scheme must meet. For that, further developments have to be done, especially in the extension of the number of users in the system.