Capacity Analysis of Uplink WCDMA Systems with Imperfect Channel State Information

This paper considers the capacity limit of an uplink wideband CDMA (WCDMA) system assuming imperfect channel state information at the receiver (CSIR). In order to make the studied results useful for the performance assessment of real cellular networks, various realistic assumptions are included in the problem. A discrete-time channel model is derived based on the mismatched filtering at the receiver. Capacity inner bounds are then characterized based on the discrete-time channel model considering different assumptions on decoding strategy. Numerical results are also provided to show the effect of imperfect CSIR on the capacity.