ChinaCom2009-Signal Processing for Communications Symposium

Research Article

Multiuser Detection for QO-STBC MC-CDMA MIMO Systems

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339928,
        author={Jung-Lang Yu and Chun-Hsien Wu},
        title={Multiuser Detection for QO-STBC MC-CDMA MIMO Systems},
        proceedings={ChinaCom2009-Signal Processing for Communications Symposium},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM2009-SPC},
        year={2009},
        month={11},
        keywords={MC-CDMA; MIMO; QO-STBC; MOE; Multiuser Detection},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339928}
    }
    
  • Jung-Lang Yu
    Chun-Hsien Wu
    Year: 2009
    Multiuser Detection for QO-STBC MC-CDMA MIMO Systems
    CHINACOM2009-SPC
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339928
Jung-Lang Yu1, Chun-Hsien Wu2
  • 1: Department of Electrical Engineering Fu Jen Catholic University Taipei Hsien 24205, Taiwan
  • 2: Department of Electronics Engineering Fu Jen Catholic University Taipei Hsien 24205, Taiwan

Abstract

The multi-carrier code-division multiple-access (MC-CDMA) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with quasi-orthogonal space-time block codes (QO-STBC) is studied in this paper. Considering QO-STBC scheme that involves three or four transmit antennas, a subspace-based blind channel estimation is proposed. With the estimated channel coefficients, the minimum output energy (MOE) and eigenspace receivers are employed for symbol detection. The weight analyses are performed to reduce the system computational complexity. Besides, the forward backward averaging technique is presented to enhance the performance of multiuser detection.