Blind Adaptive Receiver for Uplink STBC MC-CDMA Systems in Multi-Cell Environments

Bangwon SEO  Do Hyun PARK  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E96-B    No.10    pp.2676-2682
Publication Date: 2013/10/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E96.B.2676
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Wireless Communication Technologies
Keyword: 
MC-CDMA,  space-time block coding,  minimum output energy,  adaptive receiver,  multi-cell,  

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Summary: 
We consider uplink multi-carrier code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA) systems in a multi-cell environment. It is assumed that all intra-cell users employ Alamouti's simple space-time block coding (STBC), which is known to the base station receiver, but the receiver has no information on whether inter-cell users employ STBC or not. In this case we propose a blind adaptive minimum output energy (MOE) receiver for uplink STBC MC-CDMA, which is designed to perfectly remove the interference from intra-cell users by using the spreading sequence information on all intra-cell users and to reduce the interference from inter-cell users by minimizing the constrained output energy. Analysis and simulation results show that the proposed adaptive receiver has a faster convergence rate and higher steady-state signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) than a conventional scheme in which only the spreading code information of the desired user is utilized.