A multiuser interference mitigation scheme in uplink MC-CDMA with CFO Estimation-MMSE FEQ technique

Abstract

In the uplink system, different carrier frequency offsets (CFO) of different users at the receiver resulting multiuser interference (MUI) and thus degrade the performance of Multicarrier Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) system. In the previous study, Modified Minimum Mean Square Error Frequency Domain Equalization (Modified MMSE-FDE) has been proposed by Agnihotri which results in a better performance than the conventional MMSE. However, the achieved Bit Error Rate (BER) is not smaller than 10−2 for Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) below 20. This paper proposed a new algorithm to improve Modified MMSE-FDE performance in mitigating multiuser interference (MUI) in single cell MC-CDMA system, that is called as Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation-Minimum Mean Square Error Frequency Domain Equalization (CFO Estimation-MMSE FEQ). CFO Estimation-MMSE FEQ takes into account the rest of MUI as well as Modified MMSE-FDE to design equalization coefficient, but CFO Estimation-MMSE FEQ uses CFO estimation that is not on Modified MMSE-FDE. The value of CFO is estimated and regenerated in the receiver and then used to estimate MUI. In order to get signal processing more efficient, CFO Estimation-MMSE FEQ only takes the real trace of equalization coefficient matrix. MC-CDMA with CFO Estimation-MMSE FEQ has better performance than MC-CDMA with Modified MMSE-FDE. However, the complexity of CFO Estimation-MMSE FEQ is higher than Modified MMSE-FDE. By taking only the real trace of equalization coefficient matrix, the complexity of CFO Estimation-MMSE FEQ is getting simpler than taking the whole of equalization coefficient matrix. Furthermore, CFO Estimation-MMSE FEQ that takes only the real trace of equalization coefficient matrix is 2.9 % more efficient than CFO Estimation-MMSE FEQ that takes the whole of equalization coefficient matrix.