Patent ID: 8111641

Claim:
A method for performing multi-user joint-detection in a neighboring cell in a Time Division Duplex-Code Division Multiple Access (TDD-CDMA) system, the method comprising: a. a network device configuring a slot type of each uplink slot in its administrated cells and a base station of each cell obtaining a slot type of each uplink slot in a neighboring cell from the network device; b. the network device configuring for each user a slot for transmitting uplink data and a midamble and channelization code to be used according to the slot type of each uplink slot and an uplink service type of each user in each cell; c. each user in each cell using the configured midamble and channelization code to transmit uplink data in the configured slot; and d. the base station detecting activated code channels in the neighboring cell according to the received uplink data transmitted by users in the neighboring cell and obtaining the midamble used by each user in the neighboring cell according to the channelization codes of the activated code channels and based on the slot type of each uplink slot in the neighboring cell so as to be used by the base station to perform the multi-user joint-detection in the neighboring cell, wherein said obtaining comprises: d1. determining the channelization code of each detected code channel according to the detected activated code channels; and d2. obtaining a midamble corresponding to each channelization code according to the channelization code of each detected code channel and according to the corresponding relation between each channelization code and each midamble defined by the slot type of each uplink slot in the neighboring cell, wherein types of slots are preset and each type of slot defines a spreading factor, a channel estimation window number and a corresponding relation between each midamble and each channelization code used by each uplink slot.