Low complexity adaptive receiver for CDMA with multipath fading

A new receiver scheme for a DS-CDMA system similar to the IS-95 uplink is proposed in this paper that is of lower complexity and superior bit error rate performance in comparison to the conventional non-coherent RAKE receiver. The proposed receiver consists of a coherent RAKE receiver in the form of a transversal filter, and uses channel estimates obtained by an adaptive channel identification algorithm. Adaptation follows the set-membership filtering methodology, that features fast convergence and lower computational complexity compared to least-squares techniques.