  Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) is the most promising candidate for
wideband data access. This is due to the advantage of soft limit on the number
of active mobile devices. Many wireless mesh systems impose an upper bound on
the BER performance which restricts the increase in number of mobile users.
Capacity is further reduced in Multipath Fading Environment (MFE). This paper
presents an effective method of improving the capacity of a CDMA based mesh
network by managing the transmitted powers of the mobile devices and using MMSE
based Multiuser Detection (MUD). The proposed scheme improves the capacity two
times as compared to the conventional CDMA based mesh network. Simulation
results have been presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed
scheme.
