The performance and robust implementation of a blind CMOE receiver for MC-CDMA systems

This paper studies a new robust constrained minimum output energy (CMOE)-based blind detector for multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) systems. The proposed receiver intends to minimize the receiver's output energy while preserving the components of the desired user. By imposing quadratic weight constraints, the CMOE detector is made more robust against signal modeling errors, and a better performance over the standard CMOE detector is obtained. Steady-state signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) analysis of the blind CMOE detector and the minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) method with training sequences is presented. Numerical results show that the performance of the new robust detector is comparable to subspace-based method using exact singular value decomposition (SVD).