Closely spaced multipath channel estimation in cdma networks using divided difference filter

  • Zahid Ali*
  • , Mohamed A. Deriche
  • , M. Adnan Landolsi
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We investigate time delay and channel gain estimation for multipath fading Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) signals using the second order Divided Difference Filter (DDF). We consider the case of paths that are a fraction of chip apart, also knwon as closely spaced paths. Given the nonlinear dependency of the channel parameters on the received signals in multiuser/multipath scenarios, we show that the DDF achieves better performance than its linear counterparts. The DDF, which is a derivative-free Kalman filtering approach, avoids the errors associated with linearization in the conventional Extended Kalman Filter (EKF). The Numerical results also show that the proposed DDF is simpler to implement, and more resilient to near-far interference in CDMA networks and is able to track closly spaced paths.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Software Engineering
Subtitle of host publicationInternational Conference, ASEA 2008, and Its Special Sessions, Sanya, Hainan Island, China, December 13-15, 2008. Revised Selected Papers
EditorsTai-hoon Kim, Wai Chi Fang, Changhoon Lee, Kirk P. Arnett
Pages55-65
Number of pages11
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume30
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Keywords

  • CDMA Channel Estimation
  • Closely spaced multipaths
  • Kalman filters
  • Multiple Access Interference
  • Non-linear filtering

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • General Mathematics

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