瑞利衰落信道中MC-CDMA系统的载波频率偏移性能

多载波CDMA（MC－CDMA）技术结合了OFDM和CDMA技术的优点,在无线衰落信道中传输高速数据时具有突出的性能。但由于MC－CDMA采用了多载波技术,载波频率偏移对系统性能的影响非常大。本文对瑞利衰落信道下存在载波频率偏移的MC－CDMA系统性能进行了理论分析并对误码率进行了详细讨论。     

MC-CDMA系统存在频偏时的性能分析

多载波码分多址(MC-CDMA)是把正交频分复用(OFDM)和码分多址(CDMA) 结合起来的新一代移动通信系统.详细构建了一个MC-CDMA 系统的数学模型,并给出了载频偏移和多径信道存在时的矩阵-向量表示模型.在此系统模型的基础上,分析了频偏对MC-CDMA系统多用户检测器性能的影响.MATLAB仿真显示了MC-CDMA系统对频偏极为敏感,当经历多径Rayleigh信道时,系统只能忍受较小的频偏.     

多载波CDMA系统中的频域线性相位内插算法

多载波CDMA系统结合了正交频分复用（OFDM）技术和CDMA技术的优点,自1993年提出以来就受到广泛的重视。本文主要讨论了载波频偏对连续OFDM符号的影响,提出了一种新的频域线性相位内插算法来估计信道响应,以对抗载波频偏对连续OFDM符号引起的相位旋转。理论分析和仿真试验都证明我们提出的算法能有效减少载波频偏对系统性能的影响。这种新算法适用于使用导频信号块状分布的多载波CDMA系统或OFDM系统。     

Performance of Up-link MC-CDMA System with Frequency Offset and Imperfect Channel Estimation Simultaneously over Nakagami Fading Channels

In this paper, effects of carrier frequency offset on performance of uplink MC-CDMA (Multi-Carrier Code Division Multiple Access) system in Nakagami fading channel are investigated through the theoretical analysis and Monte Carlo computer simulations. Both perfect maximal-ratio combining (MRC) and equal gain combining (EGC) receivers are analyzed; the impact of imperfect channel fading estimation on the performance of MRC is also explored. The performance of MC-CDMA system is also compared with that of the conventional single-carrier DS-CDMA system. Our results indicate that the performance of MC-CDMA system is sensitive to even small values of carrier frequency offset and that the performance of MC-CDMA system improves as number of subcarriers increases. In perfect channel fading estimation, the overall performance of MRC is superior to EGC. However, when imperfect or inaccurate channel fading estimation exists, which leads to serious performance degradation, EGC becomes superior to MRC. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

载波误差对MC-CDMA系统性能的影响

该文对下行无线通信信道中MC-CDMA系统的载波误差性能进行了研究。对接收判决器的输入信噪比(SNR)和判决误码率(BER)进行了详细的理论分析和数值模拟。结果表明,MC-CDMA对载波频率偏移十分敏感,系统性能随载波数量的增加而迅速下降;在最大载荷下,载波相位抖动导致的性能下降与载波数无关。     

Impact of frequency offsets and IQ imbalance on MC-CDMA reception based on channel tracking

New air interfaces are currently being developed to meet the high spectral efficiency requirements of the emerging wireless communication systems. Multicarrier code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA) is seen as a promising candidate for the fourth-generation (4G) cellular communication systems because it can interestingly deal with the multipath propagation at a low processing complexity. Besides spectral efficiency and power consumption, the production cost of the transceiver should also be optimized. Direct conversion radio frequency (RF) receivers are appealing because they avoid costly intermediate frequency (IF) filters. However, they imply RF IQ separation, introducing a phase and amplitude mismatch between the I and Q branches. A communication system based on MC-CDMA is sensitive to synchronization errors and front-end non-idealities because it uses a long symbol duration. The goal of this paper is to evaluate the impact of the carrier frequency offset, the sampling clock offset, and the IQ imbalance on the MC-CDMA downlink system performance, considering a receiver based on channel tracking designed to cope with high mobility conditions. It is demonstrated that part of the effects is compensated by the channel estimation and an expression of the variance of the remaining symbol estimation error is provided. For the cellular system and the target performance considered in this paper, specifications are defined on the non-idealities. The results are validated with bit-error rate simulations.     

On the performance and capacity of an asynchronous space-time block-coded MC-CDMA system in the presence of carrier frequency offset

In this paper, the bit-error rate (BER) performance and capacity of asynchronous space-time block-coded (STBC) multicarrier code-division multiple-access (MC-CDMA) systems in the presence of carrier frequency offset (CFO) between the transmitter and receiver oscillators are analyzed. The exact BER expression when using equal gain combining (EGC) and the approximate BER expression when using maximum ratio combining (MRC) are derived. These BER expressions are verified through simulations. Using these derived expressions, the achievable system capacity satisfying a minimum BER requirement can be studied for the two cases when EGC and MRC are used and, hence, it is possible to compare the achievable capacity of STBC MC-CDMA systems with that of MC-CDMA systems. It is concluded that small CFO has an insignificant effect on the BER and capacity of STBC MC-CDMA systems and that this range of CFO is important in transceiver design. Besides, STBC MC-CDMA systems with multiple receive antennas can achieve higher capacity than that of the MC-CDMA systems; this amount can be obtained analytically using the theoretical BER expressions derived.     

The effect of carrier frequency offsets on downlink and uplinkMC-DS-CDMA

In this paper, we study the sensitivity of uplink and downlink MC-DS-CDMA to carrier frequency offsets, assuming orthogonal spreading sequences. For both uplink and downlink MC-DS-CDMA, we show that the performance rapidly degrades for an increasing ratio of maximum frequency offset to carrier spacing. We point out that the degradation in the uplink is larger than in the downlink because only the former is affected by multiuser interference. For a given (small) ratio of maximum frequency offset to carrier spacing, enlarging the spreading factor in a fully loaded system does not affect the downlink degradation but strongly increases the uplink degradation. Finally, we show that the downlink degradations of MC-DS-CDMA and fully loaded MC-CDMA are the same, provided that for both systems the ratio of frequency offset to carrier spacing is the same     

Sensitivity of Carrier Frequency Offset and MAI in DAPSK-MC-CDMA Systems

A less complex system by integrating non-coherent differential amplitude and phase shift keying modulation with multi-carrier code division multiple access (DAPSK-MC-CDMA) is introduced. The proposed DAPSK-MC-CDMA system can reduce the system complexity and also maintain a good performance and high-spectral efficiency. The paper firstly shows that the performance degradation caused by the multiple access interference (MAI) and the carrier frequency offset can be effectively controlled in a DAPSK-MC-CDMA system. Simulation results illustrate that both the MAI and the carrier frequency offset in the DAPSK-MC-CDMA is much less sensitive than the conventional MC-CDMA system. Furthermore, using the DAPSK modulation, the detection methods of equal gain combining, maximum ratio combining, and minimum mean square error combining now can be used in the multiple-ary DAPSK-MC-CDMA system.     

An iterative maximum SINR receiver for multicarrier CDMA systems over a multipath fading channel with frequency offset

A robust iterative multicarrier code-division multiple-access (MC-CDMA) receiver with adaptive multiple-access interference (MAI) suppression is proposed for a pilot symbols assisted system over a multipath fading channel with frequency offset. The design of the receiver involves a two-stage procedure. First, an adaptive filter based on the generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) technique is constructed at each finger to perform despreading and suppression of MAI. Second, pilot symbols assisted frequency offset estimation, channel estimation and a RAKE combining give the estimate of signal symbols. In order to enhance the convergence behavior of the GSC adaptive filters, a decisions-aided scheme is proposed, in which the signal waveform is first reconstructed and then subtracted from the input data of the adaptive filters. With signal subtraction, the proposed MC-CDMA receiver can achieve nearly the performance of the ideal maximum signal-to-interference-plus noise ratio receiver assuming perfect channel and frequency offset information. Finally, a low-complexity partially adaptive (PA) realization of the GSC adaptive filters is presented as an alternative to the conventional multiuser detectors. The new PA receiver is shown to be robust to multiuser channel estimation errors and offer nearly the same performance of the fully adaptive receiver.     

一种MC-CDMA系统的时间捕获算法

提出了一种估计低信噪比频偏多载波码分多址接入（MC-CDMA）系统定时偏差的新方法,通过采用一个特殊的PN序列,利用得到的时域序列具有的模最大值性和共轭对称性,同时采取峰值自叠加处理方法来确定定时同步起始位置。在高斯和多径衰落信道下进行了仿真,采用定时偏移的均值（mean）和均方误差（MSE）来衡量新算法的性能,验证了...     

Performance comparison of MRC and EGC on a MC-CDMA system with synchronization errors over fading channels

This work derives the average bit error rate (BER) of the uplink and downlink multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) systems using maximum ratio combining (MRC) and equal gain combining (EGC) with synchronization errors over fading channels. The derived equation can simultaneously incorporate the parameters of the fading channel and all of the synchronization errors, including frequency offset, carrier phase jitter, and timing jitter. Numerical results indicate that those two combining schemes on the uplink and downlink MC-CDMA systems are degraded by all of the normalized synchronization errors over 10⁻². The comparison outcomes between MRC and EGC reveal that the MRC generally outperforms EGC in the uplink MC-CDMA system. However, EGC achieves better performance when the number of users is small, the normalized synchronization errors are low and the signal to noise ratio (SNR) is high. In the downlink system, EGC mainly outperforms MRC when the SNR and the number of users are gradually increased and the normalized synchronization errors are low. Therefore, the selection of MRC or EGC depends on the SNR, the synchronization errors and the number of users in uplink and downlink MC-CDMA systems.     

Multimedia transmission in MC-CDMA using adaptive subcarrier power allocation and CFO compensation

Multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) system is one of the most effective techniques in fourth-generation (4G) wireless technology, due to its high data rate, high spectral efficiency and resistance to multipath fading. However, MC-CDMA systems are greatly deteriorated by carrier frequency offset (CFO) which is due to Doppler shift and oscillator instabilities. It leads to loss of orthogonality among the subcarriers and causes intercarrier interference (ICI). Water filling algorithm (WFA) is an efficient resource allocation algorithm to solve the power utilisation problems among the subcarriers in time-dispersive channels. The conventional WFA fails to consider the effect of CFO. To perform subcarrier power allocation with reduced CFO and to improve the capacity of MC-CDMA system, residual CFO compensated adaptive subcarrier power allocation algorithm is proposed in this paper. The proposed technique allocates power only to subcarriers with high channel to noise power ratio. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated using random binary data and image as source inputs. Simulation results depict that the bit error rate performance and ICI reduction capability of the proposed modified WFA offered superior performance in both power allocation and image compression for high-quality multimedia transmission in the presence of CFO and imperfect channel state information conditions.     

Blind channel equalization and carrier frequency offset estimation for MC-CDMA systems using guard interval redundancy and excess codes

It is well known that multipath channel and carrier frequency offset (CFO) destroy the orthogonality between subcarriers in the downlink of MC-CDMA and degrade the system performance. In this paper, a new low complexity algorithm is proposed to iteratively estimate the CFO and the channel equalizer using only the guard interval (GI) redundancy, or excess codes (EC) or both GI and EC without additional pilots. Simulations illustrate and compare the performance efficiency of these schemes in different scenarios.     

Interleaving scheme for multicarrier CDMA system

In MultiCarrier Code-Division Multiple-Access (MC-CDMA) system,the received signals scattered in the frequency domain are combined to get frequency diversity gain.However,the frequency diversity gain is limited because of correlation between subcarriers.A novel interleaving scheme for MC-CDMA system is proposed in this paper.A circular shifting register is introduced into each subcarrier branch to decrease the correlation between subcarriers.By using interleaving,frequency diversity gain of system is increased.System structure and model with interleaver are discussed.In the case of multiple users,Parallel Interference Cancellation (PIC) technique is also introduced.Computer simulations demonstrate the performance of proposed scheme,and the performance comparison of MC-CDMA with interleaver and conventional MC-CDMA system is shown as well.     

Residue-division multiplexing for discrete-time signals

Multiplexing is a technique for dividing a single transmission channel into a number of virtual subchannels. The present paper introduces a new multiplexing system for discrete-time signals based on a polynomial factorization. In this multiplexing system, a linear-filter additive-noise channel is decomposed into independent subchannels that are also modeled as linear-filter additive-noise channels. A configuration and an analysis of the multiplexing system as applied to mobile communications are described in detail, based on a specific selection of polynomial factorization. Multicarrier code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA) is receiving much attention in the field of mobile communications because of its time and frequency diversity property. As is the case with MC-CDMA, in the proposed multiplexing system, the subchannel information is dispersed uniformly in both frequency and time so that degradation localized in frequency or time average out over the subchannels. The averaging has the effect of decreasing the total error probability of transmission. Unlike MC-CDMA however, the multiplexing system creates multiple carriers simply by up-sampling a single complex sinusoidal carrier for each subchannel user. Because of the simple mechanism, the implementation cost is less than that of MC-CDMA     

High-performance MC-CDMA via carrier interferometry codes

This paper introduces the principles of interferometry to multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA). Specifically, we propose the use of MC-CDMA with novel carrier interferometry (CI) complex spreading codes. The CI/MC-CDMA method, applied to mobile wireless communication systems, offers enhanced performance and flexibility relative to MC-CDMA with conventional spreading codes. Specifically, assuming a frequency selective Rayleigh-fading channel, CI/MC-CDMAs performance matches that of orthogonal MC-CDMA using Hadamard-Walsh codes up to the MC-CDMA N user limit; and, CI/MC-CDMA provides the added flexibility of going beyond N users, adding up to N-1 additional users with pseudo orthogonal positioning. When compared to MC-CDMA schemes capable of supporting greater than N users, CI/MC-CDMAs performance exceeds that of MC-CDMA. Additionally, this new system is analyzed in the presence of phase jitters and frequency offsets and is shown to be robust to both cases     

Cognitive Radio Transmission Based on Direct Sequence MC-CDMA

In this paper, we propose a cognitive cellular system based on DS MC-CDMA to coexist with a number of narrow-band legacy systems in the same frequency range. If the bandwidth and the frequency location of each narrow-band system are known to this cognitive MC-CDMA, it is possible to mitigate their interfering effect in the cognitive receivers by adaptive transmission. We will develop an algorithm for calculating the adaptive transmission parameters and show that it combats interference in the channel effectively.     

同信道干扰对多载波CDMA蜂窝系统下行信道的影响

该文主要讨论多载波CDMA蜂窝系统在下行信道中的同信道干扰问题,理论分析了同信道干扰的解析表达式,并通过计算机仿真得出了在一定的传播损耗下多载波CDMA蜂窝系统下行信道的性能。通过仿真发现,即使在有小区间同信道干扰情况下,通过简单的小区布置,多载波CDMA蜂窝系统下行信道就可以有很大的信道容量。     

Multiple-Access Interference Suppression for MC-CDMA by Frequency-Domain Oversampling

Multiple-Access Interference Suppression for MC-CDMA by Frequency-Domain Oversampling A technique for interference suppression in multicarrier code-division multiple-access (MC-CDMA) systems is proposed which exploits the structural differences in signals that arrive at the receiver with Doppler shifts or carrier offsets. Oversampling the received signal in the frequency domain and properly combining the samples provides the interference suppression. Frequency-domain oversampling is accomplished by using a time extension of the conventional MC-CDMA signal or unconsumed portions of the cyclic prefix. Furthermore, a receiver structure is introduced that despreads and combines groups of samples so that a linear minimum mean-squared error solution for combining the groups is easily found. This combining scheme increases the signal-to-interference ratio experienced by the desired user in the MC-CDMA system. In addition, the receiver performs as well in severe near–far scenarios when there is sufficient frequency separation between the signals of the desired user and an interferer. Numerical results show that the proposed receiver significantly outperforms the conventional MC-CDMA receiver in many channel realizations.