What is SAIC

Sorry,
I should have look first in wiki, before asking this question as the answer is there:
It is now a well known fact that it is possible to cancel the interference at the mobile handset side by changing the baseband software without changing anything in the network side. SAIC-enabled mobiles can work in high interference levels. SAIC-enabled mobiles need even less transmit power from the network which in turn reduces the interference for non-SAIC mobiles. studies shows that with 100% SAIC mobile penetration a capacity gain of 60 to 80% is achievable. There are various approaches possible to have a SAIC-enabled phone:

1. Prefilter based baseband algorithms (2X complex than conventional receiver but gives 12-15 dB gain)

2. Constant Modulus based SAIC (simple but less gain and also it is not very robust)

3. Joint Detection (JD)

this technology was discovered in 2002 / 2003, but i never was aware of it 🙂 thanks !

on internet, i’ve found some papers… including this one:
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2006/03/30/134145.html
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2007/10/11/132742.html

first one is about nokia, second about sony ericsson… i would say that SAIC is used in most phones today.

“To further the adoption and standardization of this new technology, SAIC will be adopted as a work item in 3GPP, an international standards organization developing 3G evolution for GSM and UMTS.”

I bet you can find SAIC in 3GPP… if that’s the case, it means that all phones today are SAIC (because they got to be 3GPP compliant).