Multiuser detection algorithm for PDMA uplink system based on SIC and MMSE

As the promising novel multiple access scheme for the 5th generation (5G) wireless communication system, pattern division multiple access (PDMA) technology can improve the spectral efficiency and support the massive connection based on the reasonable unequal diversity between users. Compared with traditional multiple access technologies, PDMA brings more serious multiple address interference to hinder the multiuser detection. The universal detection algorithm with low complexity and high performance is one of the main challenges of PDMA technology. In this paper, we proposed a new iterative detection and decoding algorithm, which is a successive interference cancellation (SIC) iterative processing based on the minimum mean square error (MMSE) detection and channel decoding algorithm. It is essentially a SIC iterative processing based on some users' information has been correctly decoded by the MMSE detection and the channel decoder. The proposed multiuser detection algorithm can prevent the error propagation by the cyclic redundancy check (CRC). The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can get significant performance gains over traditional multiuser detection algorithms.