Optimizing Symmetric Energy and Permuting
Users for Decision Feedback Multiuser detection to User-Wise Outperform Linear Multiuser
Detection
M. K. Varanasi, Proc of the Conf. Inform. Sciences and Systems, pp. 492-497, Johns
Hopkins University, March 1997.
A decision feedback multiuser detector is defined by a feedforward-feedback matrix pair
and has an implementational complexity that is only linear in the number of users. The
performance criterion of symmetric (worst-case over users) asymptotic effective energy is
defined. The optimum decision feedback detector (ODFD) that maximizes this measure over
the class of decision feedback detectors is obtained. Algorithms for choosing the order in
which the users must be detected are specified for the optimum as well as the
decorrelating decision feedback detectors. These orders guarantee a user-wise superior
performance in terms of asymptotic effective energy over the linear optimum and the
decorrelating multiuser detectors, respectively. No assumption is made about interference
cancellation being perfect in deriving these results.