An efficient RAKE receiver architecture with pilot signal cancellation for downlink communications in DS-CDMA indoor wireless networks

This paper deals with a RAKE receiver architecture which makes use of a pilot signal broadcast by the base station to obtain channel parameter estimates in a direct-sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) indoor wireless network. A suitable cancellation algorithm, which is different from previous approaches, is used to reduce multipath interference due to the pilot signal. Numerical results are used to demonstrate the performance of the proposed RAKE receiver in terms of the bit error probability under typical multipath fading propagation conditions. Performance comparisons with the ideal case of perfect channel parameter estimation are given in order to highlight the good behavior of the proposed approach.

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