Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2003, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (2): 199-204.

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A Cumulant -Based DOA Estimation Algorithm for CDMA System in Spatial Colored Noise

YANG Wei1, CHENG Shi-xin2   

  1. 1 School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China;
    2 National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
  • Received:2001-12-16 Revised:2002-07-16 Online:2003-06-10 Published:2003-06-10
  • Supported by:
    Project Supported by the State Key Laboratory of Mobile Communications Research,Southeast University (No.105)

Abstract: The conventional direction of arrival (DOA) detection algorithm is generally based on the second-order spectrum estimation while assuming that the noise is additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). Concentrating on spatial colored noise of unknown spectrum quality, which is more realistic in any scenario, a novel high-order cumulant MUSIC DOA estimation algorithm for synchronous CDMA system with decorrelator has been proposed. The proposed algorithm not only has the advantages that the DOA of multipath signals can be estimated independently by eliminating all the other resolvable multipath signal interference but while on spatial colored noise case the proposed algorithm estimates DOAs of the decoupled multipath signal more effectively and accurately than the conventional second-order MUSIC algorithm.

Key words: MUSIC algorithm, DOA estimation, cumulant, CDMA

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