Anew hybrid multi-user receiver for CDMA systems; is proposed. By computer
simulations, it is shown that in certain noise environments single user det
ection might perform better than sub-optimum multi-user detection. So the h
ybrid system implemented, by alternately switching between single user and
multi-user detection, is able to perform better than both of them in all ea
ses. The performance of multi-user detection in voice transmission is exami
ned and the results of computer simulations are reported.