Blind equalization of multiuser CDMA channels: a frequency-domain approach

The blind estimation of mixing channels resulting from frequency selective fading and multipath in a multi-user CDMA system is an important problem in wireless communications. We present a novel frequency-domain approach using second order spectral statistics for recovering the unknown channels. Unlike other methods which are based on time-domain analysis we make no particular assumption about the support of the mixing channels except that they have finite length (FIR). The method is based on the fact that the source sequences obtain a known spectral color derived from the corresponding spreading code used in CDMA.

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