Group based DBF MUD in CDMA mobile communication system

For the CDMA wireless cellular communication system, a new methodology is proposed to combine digital beamforming (DBF) with multi user detection (MUD) technology which harnesses the co channel interference mitigation and obtains better performance. The proposed approach assigns all the users within a cell into separated groups according to their direction of arrival (DOA). Then, only one DBF branch is employed for a singular group so that the main lobe is steered to the desired users in the group and nulls are directed to the mobile stations in other group. Furthermore, inter group interference is degraded by MUD following the DBF. The new strategy simplifies the weight vector calculation and solves the unorthogonal channel problem. Additionally, it decreases the bit error rate. The analysis and simulation illustrate the fruits of the new mechanism.