A MVDR Multi-Code Receiver Based on Channel Estimation for HSDPA Mode

High speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) is one of the key features in the 3rd generation wireless communication standard for WCDMA. It is ongoing standardization effort to include a high data rate packet mode in the downlink direction, and is characterized by link adaptation using variable constellations (QPSK, 8PSK, 16QAM, 64QAM) and low spreading factor. The proposed MVDR multi-code receiver based on channel estimation is particularly adapted to HSDPA mode, and it gives a reasonable performance even in the case of high modulation order while keeping a lower complexity compare with LMMSE chip equalizer