Efficient receivers for GSM MUROS downlink transmission

Currently, Multiple Users Reusing One Slot (MUROS) is discussed in 3GPP GERAN as an extension of the GSM standard. In MUROS, two overlaid GMSK signals are transmitted in the same time slot and at the same frequency resource. By this, capacity of existing GSM networks in principle can be doubled and up to four half rate voice users can share one time slot. In this paper, channel estimation and detection is investigated for the MUROS downlink. Two novel channel estimation algorithms are presented, taking into account the specifics of the MUROS downlink. For detection, a joint MLSE of both user signals can be applied in case of noise limited scenarios. For interference limited environments, it turns out that approaches based on the mono interference cancellation (MIC) algorithm for single antenna interference cancellation (SAIC) are more favorable. It is shown that the standard MIC algorithm performs sufficiently well and could be used for a fast introduction of MUROS in existing GSM networks. For enhanced performance, a novel algorithm based on MIC along with successive interference cancellation is proposed. The presented results demonstrate that an even better performance as the GSM reference performance before introduction of SAIC can be obtained for MUROS if well-designed receivers are used.

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