Noncoherent multiuser communications: multistage detection and selective filtering

  • Authors:
  • Rajnish Sinha;Aylin Yener;Roy D. Yates

  • Affiliations:
  • Lucent Technologies, Whippany, NJ;Electrical Engineering Department, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA;WINLAB, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We consider noncoherent multiuser-detection techniques for a system employing nonlinear modulation of nonorthogonal signals. Our aim is to investigate near-optimum noncoherent multiuser-detection techniques that utilize the received signal structure while retaining reasonable complexity. Near-optimum approximations of the maximum-likelihood detector are investigated where the signal structure is reflected in the approximation techniques explored. Several implementations of noncoherent soft-interference cancellers are proposed and investigated, each of which exploits the signal structure in a specific way. We propose a class of detectors that employ selective filtering, a technique that exploits the a priori information that each user selects one of M signals for transmission. We show that selective filtering offers improved performance over the noncoherent counterparts of the existing near-optimum multiuser detectors. Both deterministic and blind adaptive implementations of selective filtering are considered. Numerical comparisons are provided to demonstrate the near-optimum performance of the proposed detectors.