LT-5606 Spread spectrum techniques — Spring 2009

Exercise #4: Thu 26.3.2009, 13 - 15, TC221

Note: To earn bonus points, you must solve the tasks before the session.

1. Consider a system of K = 2 synchronous users in AWGN channel. Let

b̂1 ∈ {−1, 1} and b̂2 ∈ {−1, 1} be the jointly optimum decisions that
maximize the function

Ω(b1 , b2 ) = A1 y1 b1 + A2 y2 b2 − A1 A2 ρb1 b2 (1)

Prove the following: If min{A1 |y1 |, A2 |y2 |} ≥ A1 A2 |ρ|, then b̂1 = sgn(y1 )
and b̂2 = sgn(y2 ), i.e. the decisions of the conventional single-user detec-
tion agrees with the jointly optimum decision.

2. A decision region for jointly optimum decision (b̂1 , b̂2 ) is defined as a set

{(y1 , y2 ) ∈ R2 | Ω(b̂1 , b̂2 ) > Ω(b1 , b2 ) for all pairs (b1 , b2 ) 6= (b̂1 , b̂2 )}.

Considering the previous problem, find out the decision regions when ρ =
−0.2 and A2 = 3A1 .
3. Consider a three-user synchronous CDMA channel with cross-correlation
matrix  
1 δ −δ
R= δ 1 δ  (2)
−δ δ 1
Find the near-far resistance of the jointly optimum receiver for all three
users as a function of δ. Explain why the near-far resistance is identical
for all three users.
4. The transmitted symbol sequence is b = [0101] and the spreading sequence
is s = [−111 − 1]. Assume that the channel response is the following:

Path amplitude 0.5 0.3 0.2

(3)
Delay (in chips) 0 1 2

Calculate the amplitude of the (desired) signal and the interference for
every bit if the conventional receiver is tuned to the first path.

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5. Consider a three-user synchronous CDMA system with A1 = A2 = A3 = 1
and a cross-correlation matrix
 
1 −0.6 −0.6
R =  −0.6 1 0.2  (4)
−0.6 0.2 1

Find out the error probability for user 1, P1 (σ), when using a decorrelating
detector. Recall that
· ¸−1 · ¸
1 ρ 1 1 −ρ
= (5)
ρ 1 1 − ρ2 −ρ 1

6. Consider two-user synchronous CDMA channel with no additive noise. Is

it possible to find user amplitudes A1 and A2 and code cross-correlation
ρ such that SIC receiver would result in different error probabilities when
different decoding order is used ?
7. Show that, in Eg. (4) of Chapter 6, indeed

E[nnT ] = R. (6)