Abstract: Systems and methods for symbol detection using sub-constellations are provided. In one aspect of the disclosure, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a processing unit configured to process received chips into received symbols for a plurality of users, a first detection unit configured to detect first components of user symbols for the plurality of users based on the received symbols and a computation unit configured to compute a portion of the received symbols due to the first components of the user symbols. The apparatus further comprises a second detection unit configured to detect second components of the user symbols based on the received symbols with the computed portion removed and a combining unit configured to detect the user symbols by combining the first components of the user symbols with the respective second components of the user symbols.

Abstract: Methods and systems for multi-user detection in the presence of multiple spreading factors are provided. In one aspect of the disclosure, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises an interference computation unit configured to compute a combined interference based on detected user symbols for a first spreading factor and detected user symbols for a second spreading factor, wherein the combined interference accounts for multi-user interference from user symbols for the first and second spreading factors. The apparatus further comprises an interference cancellation unit configured to remove the computed combined interference from a plurality of received symbols corresponding to the first spreading factor and a redetection unit configured to redetect the user symbols for the first spreading factor from the plurality of received symbols with the computed combined interference removed.

Abstract: System(s) and method(s) are provided for generating phase-noise resilient channel quality indicator(s). A pilot signal utilized to determine a channel quality indicator is rotated to be aligned to a phase reference signal. Separate noise evaluations in quadrature and in-phase directions are utilized, at least in part, to generate a net noise estimate that is phase-noise compensated or resilient. For example, various combination schemes of quadrature and in-phase noise evaluations can be exploited to generate a net noise estimate, the schemes include weighted average of in-phase and quadrature noise estimates and running averages thereof. Simulation of net noise estimates as a function of geometry conditions reveal that the combination schemes provide substantive mitigation of phase-noise, thus making CQI generation phase-noise resilient.