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Diversity Reception of an Asynchronous Blind Adaptive Multiuser Detector Through Correlated Nakagami Fading Channel

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In this paper, blind adaptive multiuser detection (MUD) technique is developed for uplink transmission in multiuser space diversity DS-CDMA system to overcome multipath fading effect and multiple access interference. The system consists of a space diversity, a precombining blind adaptive detector (PBAD), and a weight adaptation technique based on the minimization of the mean output energy (MOE). The bit error rate (BER) performance of this receiver for asynchronous DS-CDMA signals with independent and correlated antenna branches under Nakagami fading channel for BPSK system is evaluated. It has been seen that the use of antenna diversity can yield substantial improvement in performance even if the correlation between the antenna elements is relatively large (up to 0.795). However, the large correlation values pose a significant reduction in the diversity gain in comparison with the zero correlation situation. It has also been confirmed by simulations that the PBAD provides a significant receiver performance in comparison with the RAKE receiver employing antenna diversity.

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    Khodr A. Saaifan & Emad K. Al-Hussaini

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Khodr A. Saaifan Born in lebanon 1978, received B.S.c. degree in electrical and electronics engineering (with honors) from Benha higher institute of technology, Benha, Egypt, in 2001, and the M.S.c. degree in communications from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, in 2005. He is currently pursuing for the Ph.D. degree at the Cairo University. His current research interest includes space–time-coded transmission, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, fading channels, equalization, turbo (iterative) processing, and wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA).

Emad K. Al-Hussaini received his B.Sc degree in Electrical Communication Engineering from Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1964 and his M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, in 1974 and 1977, respectively. From 1964 to 1970, he was with the General Egyptian Aeroorganization. Since 1970, he has been with the Department of Electronics and Communications, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, and is currently professor there. He was a research fellow at Imperial College, London, UK, and at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, in the academic years 1976/1977 and 1981/1982, respectively. In 1990, he received the Egyptian national encouragement award for outstanding engineering research. He has written several papers for technical international journals and conferences. His research interests include signal processing, fading channel communication, modulation, and cellular mobile radio systems. Dr Al-Hussaini is a senior member of IEEE. He is listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World and in the IBC (International Biographical Center, Cambridge) for outstanding people of the 20th century.

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Saaifan, K.A., Al-Hussaini, E.K. Diversity Reception of an Asynchronous Blind Adaptive Multiuser Detector Through Correlated Nakagami Fading Channel. Wireless Pers Commun 40, 539–555 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-006-9120-z

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