A matching-pursuit/GSIC-based algorithm for DS-CDMA sparse-channel estimation

A sparse-channel estimation algorithm for multiuser environments is developed with application to time-of-arrival (TOA)based radiolocation. To eliminate multiple-access interference (MAI), the generalized successive interference cancellation (GSIC) algorithm is used. At each GSIC stage, the matching-pursuit (MP) or least squares (LS) methods are used to estimate the sparse channel. The GSIC/MP and GSIC/LS are compared via simulations, and the GSIC/MP performs better than the GSIC/LS.