Simple iterative chip-by-chip multiuser detection for CDMA systems

Abstract

This paper examines several low-cost iterative chip-by-chip multiuser detection algorithms for chip-interleaved code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems in multipath and multiple antenna environments. The complexities (per user) of these algorithms are very low and increase either linearly or quadratically with path number. It is shown that a system employing a rate-1/2 16-state convolutional code and a length-8 spreading sequence can support more than 100 users with two receive antennas.