A novel blind diversity combining receiver for CDMA systems

This paper addresses the problem of blind multiple access interference (MAI) and intersymbol interference (ISI) suppression in direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems. In order to take advantage of the diversity inherent to multipath channels, we introduce a blind RAKE multiuser receiver that proceeds in two steps. First, soft estimates of the desired user transmitted symbols are obtained from each propagation path using a bank of appropriate linearly constrained maximum likelihood linear (LCMLL) receivers. Afterwards, these estimates are adequately combined to enhance the signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR).