Dual-antenna-based blind joint hostile jamming cancellation and multi-user detection for uplink of asynchronous direct-sequence code-division multiple access systems

The authors investigate the problem of blind multi-user detection (MUD) for uplink of asynchronous direct-sequence code-division multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems with hostile jamming. To cope with the lack of prior knowledge of spread signals, hostile jamming and channel state information, the authors propose a scheme based on blind source separation (BSS) to solve this problem. Dual receive antennas are used in the proposed scheme. By exploiting the structure of the two received signals, a BSS model with dependent sources is formed, and then blind hostile jamming cancellation and MUD are obtained by solving this BSS problem. The proposed scheme does not require to know any information about the hostile jamming, and can work well under multiple kinds of hostile jamming. Simulation results further demonstrate that if such proposed approach is used to cancel hostile jamming and make MUD, then the bit-error-rate performance can be substantially improved as compared with earlier detectors.