Multiuser Detection Assisted Time- and Frequency-Domain Spread Multicarrier Code-Division Multiple-Access

In this contribution, we study a reduced-complexity multiuser detection aided multicarrier direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (MC DS-CDMA) scheme, which employs both time (T)-domain and frequency (F)-domain spreading. We investigate the achievable detection performance in the context of synchronous TF-domain spread MC DS-CDMA when communicating over an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. Five detection schemes are investigated, which include the single-user correlation based detector, the joint TF-domain decorrelating multiuser detector (MUD), the joint TF-domain MMSEMUD, the separate TF-domain decorrelating/MMSE MUD, and the separate TF-domain MMSE/decorrelating MUD. Our simulation results show that the separate TF-domain MUD schemes are capable of achieving a similar bit error rate (BER) performance to that of the significantly more complex joint TF-domain MUD schemes. Index Terms—Code-division multiple-access (CDMA), decorrelating, frequency-domain spreading, joint detection, minimum mean square error (MMSE), multicarrier (MC), multiuser detection, separate detection, time-domain spreading

A Space-Time Spreading Assisted Multicarrier DS-CDMA System using OVSF Codes Employing Adaptive Mode Switching Thresholds and Adaptive Modulation

The Concept of Space-Time Spreading (STS) assisted, Adaptive Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (AQAM) aidedMC DS-CDMAis introduced. The AQAMmode-switching thresholds are determined using an on-line real-time Bit-Error-Ratio (BER) based learning procedure. Four different schemes were studied, designed for maintaining a given target BER of 10?2, 10?3, 10?4 and 10?5 both with and without turbo channel coding. The effect of using different number of STS antennas ranging from1 to 8 was also characterized in terms of the achievable effective throughput, characterising the associated system design trade-offs

LAS-CDMA using Various Time Domain Chip-Waveforms

LAS CDMA exhibits a significantly better performance than that of classic random code based DS-CDMA, when operating in a quasi-synchronous scenario. Classic frequency-domain raised cosine Nyquist filtering is known to show the best possible performance, but its complexity may be excessive in highchip-rate systems. Hence in these systems often low-complexity time-domain waveform shaping is considered. Motivated by this fact, the achievable performance of LAS-CDMA is investigated in conjunction with three different time-limited chipwaveforms, which exhibit an infinite bandwidth. The raised cosine time-domain waveform based DS-CDMA system is shown to achieve the best performance in the context of a strictly band-limited system, because its frequency-domain spectral side-lobes are relatively low

On the Uplink Performance of Asynchronous LAS-CDMA

In this paper closed-form formulae are derived for characterizing the BER performance of Large Area Synchronous CDMA (LAS-CDMA) as a function of both the number of resolvable paths Lp and the maximum delay difference τmax, as well as the number of users K, when communicating over a Nakagami-m fading channel. Moreover, we comparatively studies the performance of LAS-CDMA and the traditional random code based DS-CDMA