Performance of Adaptive Partial Interference Cancellation for Near-Far Environments in OFDMA Systems

Abstract

In this paper, the performance of parallel interference cancellation (PIC) multi-user detectors in orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) mobile communication systems is investigated. In multi-user systems, the multi-user interference (MUI) degraded the system performance, especially in near-far effect environments. An adaptive weight partial PIC (AWPPIC) scheme is proposed to reduce the MUIs and to improve the bit error rate (BER) performance for uplink OFDMA systems. Simulation results show that under the near far problems for block sub carrier assignment (BCA) scheme, the AWPPIC scheme can improve the BER performance no matter what the system load is.