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    Chapter 4

    Key Technology of WCDMAThis chapter introduces the principles of every

    part in a WCDMA transceiver, including the

    principle and structure of RAKE receiver, radio

    frequency (RF) and intermediate frequency (IF)

    processing technology, channel codec technology

    and multi-user detection technology.

    Source source coder channel coder Modulator

    Channel

    DemodulatorDestination source encoder channel encoder

    M Y

    RM

    Figure 1.1 Block Diagram of Digital Communication System

    Figure 1.1 shows a digital communication system

    in a common sense, where a WCDMA transceiver

    is installed. Channel codec is Convolutional code

    or Turbo code. Modem adopts the technology of

    CDMA direct spread spectrum communication.

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    Channel coding varies with application data, that

    is, AMR adaptive multi-rate code for voice, andITU Rec. H.324 series protocols for image and

    multimedia services.

    4.1 RAKE Receiver

    In CDMA spread spectrum system, channel

    bandwidth is far larger than channel flattened

    fading bandwidth. This is different from traditional

    modulating technology which requires balancing

    algorithm to eliminate the inter-symbol

    interference. CDMA spread spectrum codes

    should be highly auto-correlative. In that case,

    delay spread in radio channels can be taken as

    signal retransfer. If the delay between multi-path

    signals exceeds the length of one chip, the CDMA

    receiver will take them as non-correlative noise

    without balancing again.

    Due to the fact that available information was

    included in multi-path signals,, CDMA receiver can

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    combine multi-path signals to improve signal

    noise ratio (S/N) of receive signals. The functionof RAKE receiver is to receive signals in multiple

    paths through several related detectors and

    combine them together.. As shown in Figure 1.1, it

    is a RAKE receiver, which is a typical diversity

    receiver specially designed for CDMA system. The

    theory behind is that multi-path signals can be

    taken as irrelevant ones when the transporting

    delay exceeds one chip period.

    Q

    I

    Combination

    and addition

    I

    Delay estimation

    Phase

    rotation

    Channel

    estimation

    Delay

    balance

    I

    Q

    Path 1

    Path 2

    Path 3

    Baseband

    input signal

    Time value (path location)

    Correlator

    with DLL

    Local

    spread

    code

    Q

    I

    Combination

    and addition

    I

    Delay estimation

    Phase

    rotation

    Channel

    estimation

    Delay

    balance

    I

    Q

    Path 1

    Path 2

    Path 3

    Baseband

    input signal

    Time value (path location)

    Correlator

    with DLL

    Local

    spread

    code

    Figure 1.1 Block Diagram of RAKE Receiver

    A correlator with DLL is a demodulating correlator

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    with phase-locked loop of early-late gate. The

    early-late gate and demodulating correlator differfrom each other by 1/2 (or 1/4) chip respectively.

    Subtracting the related output of early-late gate

    can be used for adjusting code phase. The

    performance of delay loop depends on loop

    bandwidth.

    Owning to fast fading and noise in the channel,

    there are great differences between the actual

    received phases of various paths and the phases

    of original transmitted signals. Therefore, the

    phases should be rotated before combination

    based on the results of channel estimation.

    Channel estimation in the actual CDMA system is

    performed based on pilot symbols in the

    transmission signals. Depending on sequentialpilot signals in the transmission signals, there are

    two ways of phase prediction, one is based on

    sequential pilot and the other is based on decision

    feedback technology, as shown in Figure 1.2 and

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    Figure 1.3.

    Correlator

    (Pilot channel)

    Baseband I/Q signal

    LPF

    Predicted phase and

    amplitude results

    I/Q signal

    Correlator

    (Pilot channel)

    Baseband I/Q signal

    LPF

    Predicted phase and

    amplitude results

    I/Q signal

    Figure 1.2 Channel Estimation Based on Sequential Pilot Signals

    Correlator

    Baseband I/Q signal

    Predicted phase and

    amplitude results

    I/Q signal

    DMUX

    Data symbol

    Pilot symbol

    LPF

    interpolation

    Symbol

    judgingLPFCorrelator

    Baseband I/Q signal

    Predicted phase and

    amplitude results

    I/Q signal

    DMUX

    Data symbol

    Pilot symbol

    LPF

    interpolation

    Symbol

    judgingLPF

    Figure 1.3 Channel Estimation Based on Interrupted Pilot

    Condition Using Decision Feedback Technology

    LPF is a low pass filter, filtering the noise in

    channel estimation output, whose bandwidth is

    generally higher than the channel fading rate.

    When using interrupted pilot, we should adopt

    interpolation technology to perform channel

    estimation in the interval of pilot. When using

    decision feedback technology, we should first

    decide the data symbols in the channel, and then

    take the decided results as apriori information

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    (similar to pilot) to perform complete channel

    estimation, and accordingly obtain good channelestimation results through low pass filtering. The

    shortcoming of this way is low accuracy of

    channel estimation and big decoding delay in

    case of serious noise, due to non-linear and non-

    causal prediction technology.

    The function of delay estimation is to obtain signal

    energy distribution in different time delay locations

    through matched filter (as shown in Figure 1.4),

    recognize multi-path locations with high energy

    and distribute their time value to different receive

    paths of RAKE receiver. The measuring precision

    of the matched filter can be up to 1/4 ~ 1/2 chip,

    but the interval in different receive paths of RAKE

    receiver is one chip. In the actual implementation,if the speed of updating delay estimation is very

    fast (such as once scores of ms), the phase-

    locked loop of early-late gate is not necessary.

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    Local spreading codes and scrambling codes

    N N-1 0

    N N-1 0

    Serial input

    sampling data

    Local spreading codes and scrambling codes

    N N-1 0

    N N-1 0

    Serial input

    sampling data

    Figure 1.4 Basic Structure of Matched Filter

    The major part used for delay estimation is

    matched filter, whose function is to correlate the

    input data and local codes of different phases and

    accordingly obtain correlation energy of different

    codes and phases. If the sampling data input in

    serial are the same as the phases of local spread

    spectrum code and scrambled code, the

    correlation energy is the greatest, with a

    maximum in the output end of the filter.

    Depending on correlation energy, the delay

    estimator can obtain multi-path arrival time value.

    From the perspective of implementation, there are

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    chip level processing and symbol level processing

    for the RAKE receiver. For chip level processing,correlator, local code generator and matched filter

    are included, while for symbol level processing,

    channel estimation, phase rotating and

    combination are included. Generally, chip level

    processing can be implemented with ASIC

    component, while symbol level processing can be

    implemented with DSP. Although the

    implementation and functions of RAKE receiver of

    a mobile station are different from those of a base

    station, the principles are just the same.

    For several receiver antennas with diversity

    reception, we can process multiple paths received

    by several receiver antennas in the above way.

    RAKE receiver can receive not only multiple pathsof the same antenna but also multiple paths of

    different antennas. In terms of RAKE receiving,

    the two diversities do not vary essentially.

    However, the processing of base-band would get

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    more complex as the data of multiple antennas

    requires dividing control processing.

    4.2 CDMA RF and IF Designing Principles

    4.2.1 CDMA RF and IF Architecture

    Duplexer

    Rx filter

    IF demix filter ADCDigital lower

    converterBasebandprocessor

    Lower converter

    Data

    I/O

    I

    Q

    IF smooth filter DACDigital upper

    converter

    I

    Q

    Upper converter

    Tx filter

    Local

    oscillator

    Power amplifier

    RF AGC

    RF AGC

    Local

    oscillator

    Duplexer

    Rx filter

    IF demix filter ADCDigital lower

    converterBasebandprocessor

    Lower converter

    Data

    I/O

    I

    Q

    IF smooth filter DACDigital upper

    converter

    I

    Q

    Upper converter

    Tx filter

    Local

    oscillator

    Power amplifier

    RF AGC

    RF AGC

    Local

    oscillator

    Figure 1.1 Block Diagram of CDMA RF and IF Principles

    Figure 1.1 is a block diagram of CDMA RF and IF

    principles. For the RF part, it is a traditional

    analog structure where valid signals are translated

    into IF signals. The downlink channel of RF part

    mainly consists of automatic gain control (RF

    AGC), receive filter (Rx filter) and down-converter.

    The uplink channel of the RF part mainly consists

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    of automatic gain control (RF AGC), secondary

    up-converter, wideband linear power amplifier andRF transmit filter. The IF part consists of the de-

    aliasing filter, the down-converter and the ADC for

    downlink processing, and the IF, a smoothing

    filter, the up-converter and the DAC for uplink

    processing. Regarding WCDMA digital down-

    converter, its bandwidth of output base-band

    signal is larger than that of the IF signal by 10%,

    therefore, called wideband signal, it is different

    from the general GSM signal and the first

    generation signal.

    4.2.2 CDMA RF Designing Performance and

    Considerations

    As mentioned above, CDMA signal is wideband

    signal. Therefore, the RF part must be designed to

    be suitable for wideband low-power spectrum

    density signal. CDMAs large dynamic range, high

    peak factor (due to linear modulating and multi-

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    code transmission), and precise high-speed

    power control loop are great challenges to thelinearity and efficiency of power amplifier.

    CDMA makes very high requirements for the

    linearity and efficiency of the RF front end.

    Linearity is demanded for strict output spectrum

    mask and, at the same time, the great fluctuation

    of output signal envelope. To ensure the power

    amplifier is efficient enough, we should keep its

    operating level around 1 dB point.

    To make the mobile station more compact andpower-efficient, one-step direct conversion should

    be implemented from baseband to RF or from RF

    to baseband at both the transmit end and the

    receive end. Such technology is difficult in that the

    frequency mixer must be completely linear to

    avoid any possible intermodulation product

    between two adjacent channels. In addition, input

    isolation of the frequency mixer must be good

    enough to avoid DC due to self-mixing.

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    The performances of AGC and LNA in RF part are

    crucial as well. In WCDMA designing, the noiseindex of AGC should be around 80dB, while that

    of LNA should be lower than 4dB, because it

    decides the overall noise index of the receiver.

    Analog RF components cause great RF index

    changes and individual diversity. We should

    emulate the total receiver performance loss

    caused by each RF component in the worst case,

    so that a group of stable RF designing parameters

    can be obtained. Moreover, according to the latest

    designing scheme, the number of analog

    components should be made as small as

    possible, which makes it necessary to move ADC

    and DAC closer to RF part. However, when

    considering the present signal processingcapability of the component, the digital IF

    technology is a commonly used for designing.

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    4.2.3 Digital IF Technology

    The sampling law shows that, if we perform equal-

    interval sampling at interval of 1/2fHsecond for the

    continuous time signal m(t), with a frequency band

    limited at (0,fH) Hz, m(t) can be definitely

    determined according to the sampling result.

    In this case, 2fHis called Nyquist frequency.

    Typically, a modern receiver is structured such

    that analog-digit conversion and sampling are

    performed by the IF component. The specific

    process is: IF signal M() with the bandwidth of B

    undergoes IF sampling with fs 2B(1 +/n), to get

    the resulting signal MS(), which further becomes

    the quantized and sampled low IF signal M'S()

    after passing the low pass filter H(). The final

    signal has the same frequency spectrum as that

    of the original one.

    It can be seen from the above process that IF

    sampling can be done with a frequency lower than

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    the highest valve of signal frequency as long as

    the frequency meet the specified conditions. In themeantime, frequency conversion can be achieved

    through IF sampling, that is, converting the signal

    to a lower IF, and multiplying the common

    frequencies in the numeric field, and the base-

    band diversities I and Q can be deduced.

    4.3 Diversity Reception Principle

    Radio channel is a random time-specific channel,

    whose fading feature will reduce the performance

    of the communication system. There are several

    measures to avoid fading, such as channel

    coding/decoding technology, anti-fading receive

    technology or spread spectrum technology.

    Diversity reception technology is considered as an

    effective and economical anti-fading technology.

    As we all know, the signal received in radio

    channel is an combination of multi-path

    components arriving at the receiver. If the signals

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    of different paths obtained at the receive end at

    the same time can be combined into the wholereceive signal properly, the effect of fading will be

    reduced. That is how diversity is designed.

    Literally, the meaning of diversity is to obtain

    compound signals separately and then combine

    them. The signals, if statistically independent, can

    be combined such that the performance of the

    system can be improved greatly.

    Those received signals, completely or almost

    independent of each other, can be obtained by the

    following receiving means: different paths,

    different frequencies, different angles and different

    polarizations.

    1) Space Diversity: set several antennas upon the

    receive end or the transmit end, and leave

    enough space (generally exceeding 10 signal

    wavelength) between each two antennas to

    ensure the signals sent/received in each

    antenna are mutually independent. Figure 1.1

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    is an example of dual-antenna transmit

    diversity to improve receive signals. Thanks todual-antenna transmit diversity, the

    independent receive paths obtained by the

    receiver are increased and accordingly

    combination effect is gained:

    Path 1

    Antenna 1

    Path 2

    Transmitting

    diversity

    processing

    Data flow

    Data flow 1

    Data flow 2

    Restored data flow

    Antenna 2

    Path 1

    Antenna 1

    Path 2

    Transmitting

    diversity

    processing

    Data flow

    Data flow 1

    Data flow 2

    Restored data flow

    Antenna 2

    Figure 1.1 Orthogonal Transmit Diversity Principle

    The principle of orthogonal transmit diversity is

    shown in Figure 1.1. The two antennas transmit

    different data: antenna 1 transmits the data in

    even location while antenna 2 transmits the data

    in odd location. Owing to the irrelevant transmit

    data, the data arriving at receiver antenna via

    different antenna paths have corresponding

    diversity, and accordingly the power of data

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    transmission can be reduced. In the meantime,

    the reliability of data transmission is greatlyimproved due to lower bit rate of single antenna

    transmit data. Therefore, transmit diversity can

    increase the data transmission speed of the

    system.

    2) Polarization Diversity: receive horizontal

    polarized wave and perpendicular polarized

    wave respectively.

    Time Diversity: Another way of diversity is to

    combine irrelevant signals transmitted

    asynchronously. Frequency Diversity: The same

    information is transmitted with several different

    carrier frequencies. If frequency difference interval

    of each carrier frequency is so large that it

    exceeds channel relevant bandwidth, the signalstransmitted with carrier frequencies are irrelevant

    of each other. Angle Diversity: Signals are not

    related because antennal beams point to different

    direction. For example, set several irradiators on

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    the microwave antenna to generate little-related

    beams. The diversities can be combined inpractice because they are not mutually repulsive.

    We can adopt different ways to combine diversity

    signals:

    1) Selective Combination (SC): Select the signal

    with the best S/N from several discrete ones as

    the receive signal.

    2) Equal Gain Combination (EGC): Combine

    several discrete signals by the same branch

    gain and take the combined signal as the

    receive signal.

    3) Maximum Ratio Combination (MRC): Control

    each combined branch gain to make them in

    proportion to the S/N of the existing branch,

    and then combine them to get receive signal.

    The above ways are different between the

    diversity gains in improving the combined S/N.

    Generally, diversity reception is effective to

    improve the effect of radio channel reception.

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    0

    2

    4

    6

    8

    10

    12

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Max ratio combination

    Equal-gain combination

    Optimal choice

    Improvement(r)

    (dB)

    Diversity number k

    0

    2

    4

    6

    8

    10

    12

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Max ratio combination

    Equal-gain combination

    Optimal choice

    Improvement(r)

    (dB)

    Diversity number k

    Figure 3.1 Comparison of different combinations

    Figure 3.1 shows the improvement of receiving

    effects of different combinations. As the diversity

    number K increases, the improvement of SC is

    not ideal, while that of EGC and MRC is better,

    whose difference is only about 1 dB.

    4.4 Channel Coding

    Channel coding is adding some extra codes to a

    digital sequence M by definite rules so that

    irregular information sequence M becomes a

    regular digital sequence Y (code sequence). That

    is to say, in code sequence, every code of

    information sequence is related to extra code. At

    the receiving end, the channel encoder encodes

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    with this prescient coding rules, or verifies that the

    received digital sequence R conforms to the setrule to find out errors in R and then corrects them.

    That is the basic idea of channel coding, namely,

    verifying and correcting the errors during

    transmission based on correlativity.

    Generally, digital sequence M is transmitted with K

    codes as a group. We call the one with K-code

    block an information code block. Channel encoder

    adds some extra codes to each information code

    block by definite rules, and so the code block with

    n-code is constituted. Such n codes are mutually

    related, that is, the extra n-k codes are called the

    supervising codes of this code block. In terms of

    information transmission, supervising codes are

    redundant, as it carries no information. However,such redundancy gives the codes some error

    detection and correction capability, so the

    reliability of transmission is increased and error

    rate is reduced. On the other hand, if we require

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    the speed of information transmission to remain

    constant, after supervising codes are added, theduration of each code in the code block should be

    reduced. For a binary code, pulse width should be

    also reduced. If the normalized width of each code

    pulse is 1 before coding, it should be k/n after

    coding, so channel bandwidth should be spread

    by n/k times. In this case, bandwidth redundancy

    substitutes for reliability of channel transmission. If

    the speed of information transmission is allowed

    to be slower, the duration of each code after

    coding can remain the same. In this case,

    bandwidth redundancy substitutes for reliability of

    channel transmission.

    As shown in Table 1.1, there are great gaps

    between coding gains from different codingmethods and the ideal coding gain (up to

    Shannon limit).

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    Table 1.1 BPSK or QPSK Coding Gain

    Coding Adopted Coding

    Gain

    (dB@BER

    = 10-3)

    Coding

    Gain

    (dB@BER

    = 10-5)

    Data

    Speed

    Ideal Coding 11.2 13.6

    Cascaded Code (RS

    and Convolution Code

    Viterbi Coding)

    6.5 ~ 7.5 8.5 ~ 9.5 moderate

    Convolution Code

    Sequence Coding (SoftDecision)

    6.0 ~ 7.0 8.0 ~ 9.0 moderate

    Cascaded Code (RS

    and Group Code)

    4.5 ~ 5.5 6.5 ~ 7.5 Very High

    Convolution Code

    Viterbi Coding

    4.0 ~ 5.5 5.0 ~ 6.5 High

    Convolution Code

    Sequence Coding

    (Hard Decision)

    4.0 ~ 5.0 6.0 ~ 7.0 High

    Group Code (Hard 3.0 ~ 4.0 4.5 ~ 5.5 High

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    Decision)

    Convolution Code

    Threshold Coding

    1.5 ~ 3.0 2.5 ~ 4.0 Very High

    It is observed that, for the same modulating,

    coding gains vary with different coding schemes.

    The coding schemes we usually adopt are

    convolution code, Reed-Solomon code, BCH code

    and Turbo code, etc. Convolution code is used for

    voice and low-speed signaling in WCDMA, while

    Turbo code is used for data encoding.

    4.4.1 Convolution Code

    The n codes generated by the convolution coder

    during any definite time is dependent on K

    information bits during this period and the number

    of information bits during the former N-1 period oftime. At this moment, supervising code monitors

    the information during the N period of time when

    the number of codes nN is called constraint

    length.

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    The decoding schemes of convolution code are as

    follows: threshold decoding, hard decision Viterbidecoding and soft decision Viterbi decoding.

    Among these decoding schemes, the best one is

    soft decision Viterbi decoding, which is usually

    adopted. Compared with hard decision Viterbi

    decoding, it is not much more complex, but its

    performance is better by 1.5 ~ 2 dB.

    4.4.2 Turbo Code

    We are striving to approach Shannon limit in

    coding field, where Turbo code is an innovation

    milestone. Grid code is close to Shannon limit in

    case of bandwidth-limited channels, while Turbo

    code is especially applicable to bandwidth-

    unlimited channels, such as deep space

    communication and satellite communication.

    Theory emulation shows that, in the AWGN

    channel with 0.7dB Eb/N0, Turbo code with 1/2

    code rate has bit error rate of 10-5.

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    Two or more basic coders are cascaded in parallel

    via one or more interweavers, and so Turbo codeis constituted as shown in Figure 1.1. Turbo code

    is based on the correction of the algorithm and

    structure of the traditional cascade code. The

    positive feedback of iterative decoding is

    cancelled thanks to the introduction of internal-

    interweaver. The algorithm of Turbo iterative

    decoding involves SOVA (soft output Viterbi

    algorithm) and MAP (maximum posterior

    probability algorithm) and so on. Thanks to each

    iterative performance of MAP algorithm excels

    Viterbi algorithm, iterative decoding of MAP

    algorithm can get more coding gains.

    Interleafer

    Convolution encoder 1

    Holingmultiplexing

    Input m ty t

    Convolution encoder 2

    Output

    Interleafer

    Convolution encoder 1

    Holingmultiplexing

    Input m ty t

    Convolution encoder 2

    Output

    Figure 1.1 Turbo Coder

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    4.5 Multi-User Detection Technology

    Multi-user detection (MUD) technology can

    improve the system performance and increase the

    system capacity by canceling the inter-cell

    interference. In addition, MUD technology can

    effectively release the near/far effect in direct

    sequence spread spectrum CDMA system.

    As the channels are non-orthogonal and different

    users spread spectrum codes are non-orthogonal,

    there is mutual interference between users. MUD

    is to cancel the mutual interference between multi

    users. Generally speaking, for uplink MUD, only

    the inter-cell interference can be canceled, while

    the intra-cell interference is difficult to cancel due

    to lack of necessary information (such as the

    detailed information of users in adjacent cells).

    For downlink MUD, only the interference in

    common channel (such as pilot frequency and

    broadcast channel) can be canceled.

    The system model of MUD can be shown in

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    Figure 1.1: each user transmits data bit 1b , 2b ,, Nb

    , frequency is spread by spread spectrum codeword via non-orthogonal fading channel in the

    space, and noise n(t) is added, then the user

    signals received at the receive end is correlated to

    synchronous spread spectrum code word and the

    correlation is composed of multiplier and integral

    cleaner. The interference between users is

    removed with MUD algorithm from the de-spread

    result, thus obtaining the estimated value of users

    signal 1b , 2b ,, Nb .

    It is observed from the following figure that the

    performance of MUD depends on synchronized

    spread spectrum code word tracing of the

    correlator, detection performance of each user

    signal, relative energy and the accuracy ofchannel estimation.

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    Spreading

    code word 1

    Noise n (t) Multi-userdetectionalgorithm

    Integral

    cleaner

    Spreading

    code word 2

    Spreading

    code word k

    Integralcleaner

    Integral

    cleaner

    Spreading

    code word 1

    Noise n (t) Multi-userdetectionalgorithm

    Integral

    cleaner

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    code word 2

    Spreading

    code word k

    Spreading code word 1

    Spreading code word k

    Integralcleaner

    Integral

    cleaner

    Spreading code word 2

    1b

    1b 1b

    1b

    1b

    1b

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    1b

    1b

    1b1b

    1b

    2b

    kb

    1b

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    1b

    2b

    1b

    kb

    Figure 1.1 System Model of MUD Technology

    According to the uplink MUD, only the intra-cell

    interference can be canceled. Provided that the

    inter-cell interference energy was f times of the

    intra-cell interference energy, the capacity in thecell would increase by (1+f)/f without intra-cell

    interference. According to the rule that the

    transmit power attenuates linearly by 4 powers of

    distance, the inter-cell interference is 55% of intra-

    cell interference. Therefore, MUD would ideally

    reduce 2.8 times of interference. However in

    practice, the validity of MUD is below 100%. The

    validity of MUD depends on the detection

    methods, traditional receiver estimation accuracy

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    and intra-cell user service model. For example, if

    there are some high-speed data users in the cell,MUD is adopted to cancel the interference power

    caused by these high-speed data users, which

    obviously can be more effective to increase

    system capacity.

    But the shortcoming of it is that noise would be

    increased and demodulation signal would be

    greatly delayed. Decorrelator is shown in Figure

    1.2.

    Interference cancellation is to estimateinterference from different users and multiple

    paths and then cancel the interference from the

    receive signals. Serial interference cancellation

    (SIC) is to gradually cancel the interference

    caused by the biggest user, while parallel

    interference cancellation (PIC) is to

    simultaneously cancel the interference cause by

    other users.

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    R-1

    Multipath

    delay

    estimation

    Correlation

    calculation

    Soft judgingChannel

    decoderH 1(t)

    H 2(t)

    Match filterS1

    S2

    H K (t)SK

    [ ]1 r

    r 1R =

    Match filter

    Match filter

    Soft judging

    Soft judging

    Channel

    decoder

    Channel

    decoder

    R-1

    Multipath

    delay

    estimation

    Correlation

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    Soft judgingChannel

    decoderH 1(t)

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    [ ]1 r

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    Soft judging

    Soft judging

    Channel

    decoder

    Channel

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    Figure 1.2 Decorrelator

    PIC is, for each user, to cancel signal energy

    caused by other users at every level of

    interference cancellation and demodulate it. The

    interference caused by other users can be

    basically canceled after 3 ~ 5 times of such

    interference cancellation. Note that at every level

    of interference cancellation, not all signal energy

    caused by other users can be canceled. We just

    multiply it by a relatively small coefficient to avoid

    the growing error in the traditional receive

    detection. The advantage of PIC is that it can

    easily implement multi-user interference

    cancellation and the delay of it is better than that

    of SIC.

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    As far as WCDMA uplink MUD is concerned, the

    present ideal technology is PIC, because itdemands just 3 to 5 times of resources traditional

    receiver demands, and the data path delay is also

    small.

    As far as WCDMA downlink MUD is concerned, it

    focuses on canceling the interference of downlink

    common pilot channel, shared channel and

    broadcast channel and the interference of

    common channels in a co-frequency adjacent

    base station.

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