Generalized correlation metric for decoding in a multiple access channel (Q809984)

The additive vectorial multi-access channel with two independent sources and GWN is considered. It is assumed that output channel signals are received by an individual decoder for each source. New decoding metric, being a generalization of correlation metric, for this channel is presented. This new decoding technics is almost optimal in many cases. The decoding error probability is approximated and a system parameter optimization procedure is given at the end of the paper.