Two-Stage Blind Multiuser Detection for Ultra Wideband in a Realistic Indoor Channel

A blind multiuser receiver is proposed for multiuser detection of UWB systems in a realistic indoor channel. The proposed blind multiuser receiver is based on the constant-modulus algorithm (CMA), which is known to provide satisfactory performances in a blind setting. In order to overcome the CMA interference capture problem typical of a multiuser scenario, we propose to adopt a two stage receiver: in the first stage, partial ISI and MAI suppression is achieved by exploiting the desired user signature structure properties; in the second stage, based on CMA, the residual MAI and the ISI are removed, and the desired symbols are reliably recovered. Computer simulations show that, the proposed detector achieves good performances .