A Novel method for Signal Inspection and Blind Parameter Estimation in 3G Systems

A novel, robust and practical method for signal detection and the active users enumeration in asynchronous CDMA in multipath fading channel is proposed. Most of the previous works do not consider the fact that in practical case, users signals with the help of receiver arrive asynchronously. The proposed method can be used practically in blind multi-user detection such as eavesdropping; moreover, the method is based on information theory criteria which outperforms with respect to other methods. Minimum description length (MDL) criterion has better performance than all other information criteria used in such scenarios. Unlike most of the pervious works, we do not exploit array antenna to gather necessary data of the users. However our proposed method needs a simple omnidirectional antenna which simplifies receivers structure and reduces its costs. Also, this exploitation provides us the ability to use our proposed algorithm in coherent signal case. Similar to some other information criterion based methods, our method exploits the users code length as an input which is not appropriate for blind active user enumeration. A novel Pseudo Noise (PN) code detection approach is also presented in this paper to tackle this problem. Numerical results confirm our claims and the efficiency of algorithm in detection and exact enumeration of active users in low SNRs and multipath environment.

Keywords:

Active user enumeration , Information criterion (MDL) , DS-CDMA , Coherent signals , Second Order Statistic (SOS) blind estimator , PN length estimation.