Selective partial PIC for wireless CDMA communications

This paper deals with a cancellation multiuser detector for CDMA communication systems. The proposed receiver, defined as selective partial parallel interference cancellation (SP-PIC), is supposed to be used at the end of an up-link channel characterized by multipath fading phenomena. The SP-PIC main feature is to perform a weighted selective cancellation of the co-channel interfering signals according to the received power level. With respect to other approaches, the proposed detector exhibits an improved bit error rate (BER) and a low computational complexity, linear with the number of users.