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The invention concerns complexity management of a receiver in a multi-access/user communication system where interference exists. For example, but not limited to, multi-user detection at the receiver in the uplink of a code division multiple access DS/CDMA system. The invention provides a method for power management and decoding schedule optimisation by deriving (40) an extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) function for an interference canceller and a plurality of decoders. Then, determining (42) a power level for each of the plurality of users based on the derived EXIT functions; and then deriving (44) a decoding schedule for the plurality of decoders based on the derived EXIT functions and determined power levels. It is an advantage of the invention that optimization is broken into two parts. There is no trade-off between computational complexity (number of iterations) and the improvement in bit error rate performance at a given signal-to-noise ratio. Using the invention, large gains in receiver sensitivity (i.e. in power efficiency and/or spectrum efficiency therefore reducing interference from the terminals) and computational complexity can be achieved simultaneously.

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