Adaptive Detector for SC-FDE in Multiuser DS-UWB Systems Based on Structured Channel Estimation with Conjugate Gradient Algorithm

In this work, we propose a conjugate gradient (CG) based structured channel estimation (SCE) scheme for single-carrier frequency domain equalization (SC-FDE) in multiuser direct-sequence ultra-wideband (DS-UWB) systems. The minimum mean square error (MMSE) linear detection strategy is used and a cyclic prefix is employed. We perform the adaptive channel estimation in the frequency domain and implement the despreading in the time domain after the FDE. In this scheme, the linear MMSE detection requires the knowledge of the number of users and the noise variance. For this purpose, we propose algorithms for estimating these parameters. A CG adaptive algorithm is then developed for the SCE scheme. With lower complexity than the recursive least squares (RLS) algorithm and better performance than the Least mean squares (LMS) algorithm, the SCE-CG achieves a better tradeoff between the complexity and the performance.