Comparison of Multi-User Detectors of DS-CDMA System

DS-CDMA system is well known wireless technology. This system suffers from MAI (Multiple Access Interference) caused by Direct Sequence users. Multi-User Detection schemes were introduced to detect the users- data in presence of MAI. This paper focuses on linear multi-user detection schemes used for data demodulation. Simulation results depict the performance of three detectors viz-conventional detector, Decorrelating detector and Subspace MMSE (Minimum Mean Square Error) detector. It is seen that the performance of these detectors depends on the number of paths and the length of Gold code used.

Authors:

• Kavita Khairnar
• Shikha Nema

Keywords:

• Cross Correlation Matrix
• MAI
• Multi-UserDetection
• Multipath Effect.

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