A Fuzzy MOE Receiver for Uplink MC-CDMA Systems with Carrier Frequency Offset over Multipath Fading Channels

A novel fuzzy minimum output energy (MOE) detector is proposed for uplink multicarrier CDMA (MC-CDMA) systems with carrier frequency offset (CFO) over multipath fading channels. The proposed receiver involves the following stages. First, the fuzzy CFO constrained MOE detector after coarse CFO estimation is proposed to suppress multiple access interference and combat the degradation problem of the conventional MOE detector caused by the CFO effect. Next, using the signal subspace projection technique, the proposed detector can further reduce the enhanced noise due to the fuzzy CFO constrained detector. Finally, the output data obtained from these detectors are coherently combined to offer multipath diversity gain in accordance with the maximum ratio combining criterion. Furthermore, the proposed single input single output (SISO) robust detector can be easily extended for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) MC-CDMA system with a high rate of performance. Simulation results show that the proposed SISO detector, which offers a similar performance as the optimal detector, can provide robustness against CFO and outperform the conventional detectors. The proposed MIMO detector with spatial multiplexing gain also exhibits excellent performance.