In this paper, we research the concepts and classes of Multi-User Detection Systems. MUD holds much promise for improving DS-CDMA performance and capacity. Multiple access interference significantly limits the performance and capacity of conventional ...
In this paper, we research the concepts and classes of Multi-User Detection Systems. MUD holds much promise for improving DS-CDMA performance and capacity. Multiple access interference significantly limits the performance and capacity of conventional DS-CDMA systems. In MUD, code and timing information of multiple users is jointly used to better detect each individual user. The optimum multi-user sequence detector is known, and provides huge gains in performance and capacity over the conventional detector ; it also minimizes the need for power control. Unfortunately, it is too complex to implement for practical DS-CDMA systems. Many simpler suboptimal MUD have been proposed in the last few years, all of which have the potential to provide substantial performance and capacity gains over the conventional detector. Most of the detectors fall into two categories : linear and subtractive interference cancellation.