BER Calculation and Investigation of Optimal Single User Detector for a BPSK Signal Contaminated by Cochannel Interferer

We propose an optimal single user detector (OSUD) for a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) signal corrupted by a cochannel interferer and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). We obtain an analytical expression for the detector bit error rate (BER). The capacity of this channel is also investigated to interpret the BER performance of the optimal detectors.