Abstract
Cumulant-based inverse filter criteria (IFC) using second- and higher order statistics (HOS) proposed by Tugnait et al. have been widely used for blind deconvolution of discrete-time multi-input multi-output (MIMO) linear time-invariant systems with non-Gaussian measurements through a multistage successive cancellation procedure, but the deconvolved signals turn out to be an unknown permutation of the driving inputs. In this paper, a multistage blind equalization algorithm (MBEA) is proposed for multiple access interference (MAI) and intersymbol interference (ISI) suppression of multiuser direct sequence/code division multiple access (DS/CDMA) systems in the presence of multipath. The proposed MBEA, which processes the chip waveform matched filter output signal without requiring any path delay information, includes blind deconvolution processing using IFC followed by identification of the estimated symbol sequence with the associated user through using a user identification algorithm (UIA). Then, some simulation results are presented to support the proposed MBEA and UIA. Finally, some conclusions are drawn.