An interference-suppressing RAKE receiver for the CDMA downlink

In this letter, we propose an interference-suppressing RAKE receiver for the code division multiple-access (CDMA) downlink. In the downlink, the received signal has a special structure that makes it possible for a RAKE receiver (which is a simple low-complexity linear receiver) with appropriately chosen weights to suppress interference efficiently. While there have been a few other interference-suppressing RAKE receivers proposed recently, our design is based on a different motivation, and we show that our approach significantly outperforms them especially when the number of active users in the cell is not large.

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