5th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Highly efficient multiuser detector of M-PSK signals using coordinate-descent phase estimation

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/chinacom.2010.130,
        author={Yuriy Zakharov and Zhi Quan and George White and Junruo Zhang},
        title={Highly efficient multiuser detector of M-PSK signals using coordinate-descent phase estimation},
        proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2011},
        month={1},
        keywords={coordinate descent low complexity M-PSK multiuser detection quadratic optimization semi-definite relaxation},
        doi={10.4108/chinacom.2010.130}
    }
    
  • Yuriy Zakharov
    Zhi Quan
    George White
    Junruo Zhang
    Year: 2011
    Highly efficient multiuser detector of M-PSK signals using coordinate-descent phase estimation
    CHINACOM
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/chinacom.2010.130
Yuriy Zakharov1,*, Zhi Quan2,*, George White3,*, Junruo Zhang1,*
  • 1: Department of Electronics, University of York, UK
  • 2: Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil
  • 3: QinetiQ Ltd., Malvern, Worcestershire, UK
*Contact email: yz1@ohm.york.ac.uk, zhi.quan@engenharia.ufjf.br, gpwhite@qinetiq.com, jz519@ohm.york.ac.uk

Abstract

Joint detection of a large number of M-PSK symbols is important for many applications in communications, in particular, for multiuser detection in CDMA systems. In the past, there was much effort to find a technically simple solution to this problem and yet providing near optimal detection performance. We propose to use a novel iterative technique, the phase descent search (PDS) algorithm, for solving this problem. This technique constrains the solution to have a unit magnitude and it is based on coordinate descent iterations where coordinates are the unknown symbol phases. The PDS algorithm, together with a descent local search (also implemented as a version of the PDS algorithm), is used multiple times with different initializations in a proposed multiple phase detector; the solution with the minimum cost is then chosen as the final solution. Simulation results show that for highly loaded multiuser scenarios the proposed technique has a detection performance that is close to the single-user bound. The results also show that the multiple phase detector allows detection in highly overloaded scenarios and it exhibits near-far resistance. In particular, the detector has a performance that is significantly better, and complexity that is significantly lower, than that of the detector based on semi-definite relaxation.