Codeword quantization for interference avoidance

Programmable radios offer a new perspective on wireless communications since the modulation method is no longer fixed. Adaptive methods where user signatures and corresponding receiver filters are iteratively adapted can be used to improve performance. However, since codeword adjustments must be fed back to the transmitter, compact representation of codewords is extremely important. This issue is important for systems which employ interference avoidance since as opposed to current CDMA systems where uniform-amplitude codeword chips are used, interference avoidance employs real-valued "chips"-real-valued coefficients for a set of orthonormal basis functions of the signal space used by the transmitter and receiver. The paper represents a simple investigation of how codeword quantization affects the performance of interference avoidance algorithms. Results indicate that using 4-5 bits per chip for codeword representation is sufficient to maintain performance close to optimal values.