Abstract:This paper investigates the performance of a reduced rank MMSE correlator for a RAKE receiver in the context of CDMA in frequency selective multipath. The MMSE correlator based on the Correlations Subtractive Architecture (CSA) is very suit for frequency selective multipath. It is emonstrated that the standard multiuser limited RAKE receiver can achieve BER performance close to the MMSE receiver spanning multiple symbols by replacing its conventional correlator with an MMSE correlator. The CSA generates an MMSE correlator without requiring atrix inversion, thereby reducing computational complexity; this facilitates direct replacement of the standard RAKE correlator.