Impact of WCDMA channel multiplexing on smart antenna systems

Smart antenna has been regarded as one promising technology to enhance the performance of CDMA mobile communication systems. However, when applied to 3G systems, the performance of traditional adaptive arrays may degrade due to code and time multiplexing in dedicated physical channels. A novel semiblind adaptive array approach is proposed to solve this problem. It overcomes the self-interfering problem by introducing a quasi-despreading technique for the control channel, and contains a time-multipexed structure to utilize both pilot symbols and unknown control symbols within the control channel. The blind part of the proposed approach is based on the competition of two parallel branches with different reference sequences. Simulation results show significant improvement can be achieved by the proposed approach in a fast-fading WCDMA environment.