On the performance of a maximum-likelihood code-acquisitiontechnique for preamble search in a CDMA reverse link

The performance of a maximum likelihood (ML) code-acquisition technique is analyzed for slotted-mode preamble search in the code-division multiple access (CDMA) reverse link. The probabilities of detection, miss, and false alarm are derived analytically for multiple H ₁ cell cases, based on the statistics of the CDMA noncoherent demodulator output in a frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channel. The probability density function (PDF) of a decision variable is also derived by considering the fading characteristics of the received signal for both single- and dual-antenna cases. The performance of the code-acquisition technique is evaluated numerically with emphasis on the effects of postdetection integration, fading rate, antenna diversity, and so on     

Analysis of power ramping schemes for UTRA-FDD random access channel

The random access channel (RACH) in a universal terrestrial radio access-frequency division duplex (UTRA-FDD) system is a contention-based channel mainly used to carry control information from mobile stations (MS) to base stations (BS). The transmission of a random access request contains two steps: preamble transmission and message transmission. In preamble transmission, the power ramping technique is used to favor the delayed preambles by stepping up the transmission power after each unsuccessful access. In doing so, the success of transmitting a long-delayed preamble is increased due to the power capture effect. This paper analyzes the blocking, throughput, and delay performance of preamble transmission under three power ramping schemes with fixed, linear, and geometric step sizes. The interference caused by different power ramping schemes is also compared.     

Hierarchical wideband multicarrier CDMA systems: reverse link analysis

The reverse link performance of hierarchical wideband multicarrier code-division multiple-access (MC-CDMA) systems is studied. An MC-CDMA system divides the system bandwidth into several equal narrow subbands that are used to transmit multiple signal waveforms in parallel. MC-CDMA systems are known to be robust to multipath fading and narrowband interference. We propose a hierarchical MC-CDMA system where the microcell(s) occupies a fraction of the available subbands. It is shown that such an architecture is a viable way of supporting microcell traffic while protecting the existing macrocell traffic. The effects of microcell Nakagami fading and power control error are also studied.     

Adaptive antenna arrays for the reverse link of CDMA cellularcommunication systems

The use of an antenna array in the reverse link of cellular communication systems is proposed. A recursive least squares (RLS) algorithm is used to adjust the weight coefficients of the array. The improvement in performance is quantified by comparison with the omnidirectional antenna system using realistic simulations     

Performance of CDMA random access systems with packet combining in fading channels

We analyze the system performance of code-division multiple-access (CDMA) random access systems with linear receivers and packet combing in multipath fading channels. Both slotted and unslotted CDMA systems with random spreading codes are considered. The analysis is based on large systems in which both the offered load and the processing gain tend to infinity but their ratio is fixed. It is relatively easy to characterize the traffic in such large systems, which enables us to derive the system throughput and average delay. From the analysis results, it is observed that multiuser detection and packet combining substantially improve the system performance.     

MIMO receivers considering preamble collisions for grant-free random access in machine type communication systems

Telecommunication Systems - One of the main requirements for next generation mobile or wireless communication systems is to effectively support a large number of machine type communication (MTC)...     

The effects of power control on the optical CDMA random access protocol

In this work, the performance of the hybrid system that combines the distributed power control algorithm (DPCA) with the random access protocol as a novel and simple scheme of achieving a high performance in decentralized optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) networks has been investigated. The multiple access interference (MAI) and the near-far problem effects have been considered. The DPCA’s advantage lies in its characteristics being effectively implemented to each node, since only local parameters are necessary. The principal results have shown that the network throughput and delay are strongly affected by the near-far problem and the DPCA works to solve this problem. Hence, the introduction of a certain level of the power control to the random access temporally coded (1D) or the time-wavelength coded (2D) OCDMA networks has demonstrated profitability of the throughput increase and the delay reduction. As a consequence, the proposed system configuration with the DPCA using a very low number of iterations has resulted in a better throughput and simultaneously in a delay decrease when compared to the system without power control mechanisms.     

Congestion control schemes for reverse link data transmission in multimedia CDMA systems

We investigate the congestion control schemes for reverse link in code division multiple access multimedia systems. We propose four schemes according to the control bit setting methods at base and the rate decision schemes in mobiles. With the proposed schemes, all mobiles control their transmission power and rate simultaneously. As the aggregate effect, the cell-wide congestion control is accomplished. The performance of systems with the proposed schemes are evaluated using computer simulation and compared with each other. Under a congested situation, the proposed schemes guarantee the priority of real-time traffic over non-real-time traffic and prevent an excessively high error rate for real-time services. We describe and evaluate the proposed schemes under the system model assumption based on 1xEV-DO and cdma2000. However, the proposed schemes can be also applied to wide-band code division multiple access systems with minor modification.     

A comparison of reverse link access schemes for next-generation cellular systems

We consider different transmission options on the reverse link of cellular systems for packet data. The different transmission options are classified based on the nature of in-cell and out-of-cell interference power statistics. The categories are: (a) no in-cell interference, averaged out-of cell interference; (b) no in-cell interference, bursty out-of-cell interference; and (c) averaged in-cell interference, averaged out-of-cell interference. Depending on whether the reverse link transmission is time multiplexed one user at a time transmission, or simultaneous transmission by multiple users with or without in-cell orthogonality, the interference structure falls into one of the above three categories. We analyze the throughput performance of the system in each of these cases when incremental redundancy is employed to combat uncertainty in the interference power. We compare the different options under an in-cell rise-over-thermal (IROT) constraint and provide some insights for reverse link design for next-generation cellular systems. Our results show that transmission option (a) with an optimal choice of the number of simultaneous transmissions within the cell has the best performance over several different scenarios. Time-multiplexed transmissions, despite the bursty out-of-cell interference power structure, has throughput comparable to that of a multiple-user orthogonal transmission system for small cells where mobiles have sufficient transmit power to meet the target IROT.     

Hybrid orthogonal/random multiple access scheme with improved performance for downlink CDMA systems

In this paper, a hybrid orthogonal and random multiple access scheme with improved performance for capacity-enhanced downlink Code-Division Multiple-Access （CDMA） systems is presented, which is in fact a combination of the conventional orthogonal spreading scheme and the synchronous Interleave Division Multiple Access （IDMA） scheme. The proposed scheme can achieve near single user performance for very large number of users by the iterative turbo like detection. Analysis and simulation results show that the proposed scheme performs better than the synchronous IDMA scheme for the same time complexity. Meanwhile, larger capacity can be provided compared with the conventional orthogonal schemes.     

一种基于LTE随机接入前导检测的实现方案

为了提高随机接入过程中前导检测的效率,文章提出一种基于频域检测的固定阈值算法,该算法在频域检测的基础上通过假设固定阈值来检测签名前导序列,与传统时域的检测算法相比,它降低了复杂度,而且在阚值的选取上更加简单.通过性能仿真证明了该算法在不同信道环境下都有良好的检测性能.     

Multiuser detectors for large CDMA random access systems over Rayleigh fading channels

In this paper, large code division multiple access (CDMA) random access systems employing the decorrelator and minimum mean square error (MMSE) detectors are investigated over Rayleigh fading channels under the assumption that both the number of users and the spreading gain tend to infinity, but their ratio converges to a constant. The signal to interference ratio (SIR) is shown to converge almost surely to a constant and the bit‐error rate (BER) is expressed as a function of the traffic load, transmission probability, channel coefficient, and distribution of transmission power. Furthermore, the throughput, the spectrum efficiency, and the stability region are analyzed and simulated. For dominating systems, it is shown that the MMSE detector achieves much higher throughput and spectral efficiency than decorrelator detector. Besides, it is also disclosed that, when the signal to noise ratio (SNR) is larger than an optimum value, the spectrum efficiency increases as the ratio of bit energy to noise power spectrum density (E_b/N₀) increases; however, when SNR is smaller than the optimum value, the spectrum efficiency decreases as E_b/N₀ increases. For ordinary stable systems, it is demonstrated that their stability region gets narrower as the traffic load increases. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A spread slotted CDMA/ALOHA system with hybrid ARQ for satellitemultiple access

We propose and investigate a new type of satellite multiple access protocol that combines the characteristics of the spread slotted (SS)-ALOHA protocol, code division multiple access (CDMA), and the hybrid automatic repeat request (ARQ) error controlling and retransmission scheme, in order to increase the throughput by reducing the number of retransmissions and to keep the bit error rate (BER) of the satellite link low when the channel experiences heavy traffic. The main feature of our proposed system is the utilization of two different fields in the analysis of the satellite multiple access problem. Since the hub now possesses the forward error correction (FEC) capability to correct errors that appear after the CDMA despreading of the packets, the satellite does not need to ask so often for the retransmission of erroneous packets and will ask for retransmission only when the FEC error correcting capability is exceeded. This paper also presents the adaptive optimization of the balance between the CDMA processing gain and FEC coding gain in order to obtain a better throughput for the SS-CDMA/ALOHA with hybrid ARQ protocol for satellite multiple access. The optimization is made with the constraint of keeping the bandwidth of the transmitted packets constant during all times. According to this, the effective throughput of the protocol (information bits over total transmitted bits ratio) is improved by adaptively changing the CDMA and FEC codes used in the transmission. This adaptive optimization is done by observing the channel status or load and increasing or decreasing both coding schemes' gains. Computer simulations show the performance of the proposed multiple access scheme     

Effect of power control imperfections on the reverse link of cellular CDMA networks under multipath fading

In this paper, we present an analytical approach for the evaluation of the impact of power control errors on the reverse link of a multicell direct sequence code-division multiple access (CDMA) system with fast power control under multipath fading. Unlike many previous papers, the joint effect of multipath fading and fast power control on interference statistics is explicitly accounted for and mobiles are assumed to connect to a base station according to a minimum attenuation criterion. Both the average bit error rate (BER) and the outage probabilities that a user experiences are estimated. The results have been used to evaluate the system capacity from two points of view. First, the maximum capacity supported by the system in order to maintain an average BER below a prescribed level has been calculated. Second, the maximum capacity possible to ensure that the outage probability does not exceed a set limit is analyzed. Capacity is shown to be significantly affected by the imperfections of power control. Our results can be used to quantify the relative capacity loss due to fast power control errors in a cellular CDMA network affected by slow fading, multipath fading, and cochannel interference.     

Performance analysis of DS-CDMA with slotted ALOHA random access for packet PCNs

In this paper, we present a discrete time Markov chain based analytical framework for the study of Direct-Sequence Code-Division-Multiple-Access (DS-CDMA) with slotted ALOHA random access protocols (DS-CDMA-S-ALOHA) for packet Personal Communications Networks (PCNs). It incorporates both the random access and the random errors associated with DS-CDMA-S-ALOHA protocols into a unified framework. The key feature is that it distinguishes between the two stages in the transmission process, namely the access stage and the reception stage, which characterize the random access and the random errors associated with DS-CDMA-S-ALOHA protocols respectively. Two DS-CDMA-S-ALOHA protocols are presented and analyzed. The performance of the protocols and the effects of the design parameters, namely the packet retransmission probability and the forward error correction code rate of the Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) block codes are evaluated numerically and compared with a bandwidth equivalent conventional multi-channel slotted ALOHA system. The results show that, by proper design, the DS-CDMA-S-ALOHA protocols can double the throughput with respect to that of a bandwidth equivalent conventional multi-channel slotted ALOHA system.     

A simple generalization of the CDMA reverse link pole capacityformula

A formula that computes the maximum number of users supported per base station in a cellular radio network is generalized to consider the frequency reuse number and arbitrary processing gains. The generalization quantifies a cost associated with in-cell interference by accounting for the lack of interference from the desired user on the total interference and by considering the impact of the frequency reuse number on the out-of-cell interference. This interference cost results in an increase in the received Eb/Io relative to FDMA which should be weighted against a reduction in the Eb/Io requirement resulting from using CDMA     

Optical CDMA random access protocols with and without pretransmission coordination

The link layer of an optical direct-detection code-division multiple-access (CDMA) packet network is considered. Two different protocols that need pretransmission coordination are proposed. A variation of the second protocol that does not need pretransmission coordination is discussed. Both system throughput and average packet delay are derived and investigated for two different receiver models: the correlation and chip-level receivers. Both multiple-access interference and the photodetector's shot noise are taken into account in the analysis. The case where the number of users exceeds the available number of CDMA codes is numerically investigated. Our results reveal that the proposed protocols yield competitive system throughputs when used with the correlation receivers. Further, significant improvement in the throughput is achieved when using chip-level receivers along with the second protocol.     

基于高速移动环境的LTE上行随机接入前导序列的生成

3GPP长期演进（Long Term Evolution）计划中的随机接入信道是一个基于竞争的上行信道。当某个小区内多个移动台同时发起接入时,可能发生碰撞导致部分移动台接入失败或者移动台之间相互干扰。为避免以上情况,3GLTE为不同用户接入分配了不同的前导序列,利用序列间良好的相关性避免接入冲突和用户间干扰。本论文基于3GPP对LTE上行随机接入受限循环移位前导序列的规范定义,在不改变对RACH结构假设的前提下,讨论高速移动环境下的随机接入受限循环移位前导序列,并针对两种不同的假设给出两种生成公式,并通过仿真结果比较其优劣。     

Optimal power and retransmission control policies for random access systems

We consider in this study dynamic control policies for slotted Aloha random access systems. New performance bounds are derived when random access is combined with power control for system optimization, and we establish the existence of optimal control approaches for such systems. We analyze throughput and delay when the number of backlogged users is known, where we can explicitly obtain optimal policies and analyze their corresponding performance using Markov Decision Process (MDP) theory with average cost criterion. For the realistic unknown-backlog case, we establish the existence of optimal backlog-minimizing policies for the same range of arrival rates as the ideal known-backlog case by using the theory of MDPs with Borel state space and unbounded costs. We also propose suboptimal control policies with performance close to the optimal without sacrificing stability. These policies perform substantially better than existing "Certainty Equivalence" controllers.     

时隙ALOHA DS/CDMA系统与多载波时隙ALOHA系统吞吐性能的比较研究

该文对同样带宽下时隙 ALOHA DS/CDMA系统和多载波时隙 ALOHA系统的吞吐量进行了理论计算、比较和仿真。结果表明,在总负载较大时,采用高纠错能力的时隙 ALOHA DS/CDMA系统可以在吞吐量上有更好的性能。但若网络负载过重,时隙ALOHA DS/CDMA系统的吞吐性能较多载波时隙ALOHA的系统下降快;码字总数受限会带来码字选择的冲突,从而降低系统的吞吐性能。