THE CENTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING RESEARCH
				   and 
	THE NORTH JERSEY CHAPTER OF THE IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY
				 present
	COMBINED DETECTION AND ESTIMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS*
				   by
			     STUART SCHWARTZ
			   PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

WHEN:	Monday, May 6, 1996, 11:30 a.m. (refreshments at 11:15)
WHERE:	Room 202, Electrical and Computer Engineering Center
	New Jersey Institute of Technology

ABSTRACT

In an effort to overcome the impediments of fading, shadowing, and multiuser 
interference, and to increase user capacity in DS/CDMA wireless communication 
systems, a number of processing techniques have been proposed.  These include 
both spatial (multiple antenna) and temporal processing.  For the latter, the 
primary approaches have been multipath resolution, equalization, multiuser 
detection, and coding.  The basic goal of all these approaches, in one way or 
another, is to eliminate or at least substantially attenuate multiuser 
interference and to coherently combine a particular user's received signals.  
To effectively exploit these techniques and achieve significant gains in user 
capacity, a variety of model parameters must be assumed known or estimated.  
These typically include user amplitudes, phase and delay, PN codes, and sensor 
phase offset (if multiple antennas are utilized).  An alternative is to 
sequence the processing techniques in such a way as to make the receiver more 
robust, i.e., make the performance less sensitive to parameter mismatch.  In 
this talk, we will review some of the estimation procedures developed for a 
multiuser communication environment and will present a number of combined 
joint estimation-detection procedures.  We then introduce detector structures 
that have more robust performance.  In particular, we discuss a new structure 
that consists of a decorrelator and multipath combiner.  This detector turns 
out to be robust against the interfering user's parameter mismatches and power 
levels.  In addition, the detector provides a set of sufficient statistics 
which lead to linear minimum variance unbiased estimates for the desired 
user's amplitudes, phase and sensor offset.  Simulations are presented that 
illustrate the robustness of the detector in the face of parameter mismatch.

*Joint work with Howard Huang, Lucent Technologies. 


BIOGRAPHY

Stuart C. Schwartz received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from M.I.T. in 1961 and 
the Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1966.  He is presently a 
professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University.  He was chair of 
the department from 1985 to 1994, and served as associate dean of the School 
of Engineering from 1977 to 1980.  He was a John S. Guggenheim Fellow during 
the academic year 1972-73.  He has held visiting appointments at the Technion, 
Haifa, Israel (1972-73), Bell Telephone Laboratories, Crawford Hill (1980-81), 
Dartmouth and Berkeley (1989-90),  and ETH, Zurich (1995).  His principal 
research interests are in statistical communication theory and signal 
processing. 

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