The University of Texas System

Umesh Jani

Eric Morgan Dowling

Zifei Wang

Richard M Golden

The present invention provides a processing apparatus and methods for the extraction of user information streams from a composite CDMA waveform. The apparatus and methods increase CDMA system capacity by orthogonalizing an individual user's signal from thermal noise components, multi-access interference, and spatially diverse but non-orthogonal coded components. The present invention exploits both the temporal diversity and the spatial diversity present in the received composite CDMA waveform to increase performance. The smart antenna multiuser detector makes use of blind-block-adaptive nonlinear optimization strategies, which are used to separate user signal components from a composite CDMA waveform by jointly processing in both a chip (code) and spatial domain.

Smart antenna multiuser detector

An apparatus and method for spread spectrum multiuser communication receivers is disclosed that includes, an adaptive filter adapted to minimize a block error function, wherein the filter tap weights are updated according to a non-linear optimization algorithm adapted for block processing of time-varying data.

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Umesh Jani