Adaptive narrowband interference rejection in DS-CDMA systems: a scheme of parallel interference cancellers

In the presence of narrowband interference (NBI), the performance of the direct-sequence code-division multiple access communication system can be improved by using various interference cancellation schemes. In this paper, a scheme of parallel interference cancellers (PICs), which includes a set of NBI cancellation filters and a set of multiple access interference (MAI) cancellation filters, is developed to improve the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) and handle the MAI effect. In order to avoid performance deterioration due to unreliable initial detection, a robust coefficient is introduced in our proposed design criterion. A recursive least-square algorithm is employed to update the tap coefficients of the PICs. In other words, no training or retraining period is needed in our proposed PICs. Finally, the SIR performance of the proposed detector is analyzed and compared to that of the conventional linear detector.