Performance analysis of single carrier and multicarrier DS‐CDMA systems over generalized fading channels

Using a recently developed moment generating function‐based approach for the performance evaluation of digital communications over fading channels, we present a unified approach for the exact performance analysis of binary direct‐sequence code division multiple access (DS‐CDMA) systems operating over generalized frequency‐selective fading channels. The results are applicable to single carrier systems employing RAKE reception as well as to multicarrier DS‐CDMA systems with frequency diversity. Aside from simplifying previous results both analytically and computationally, the proposed approach also gives a solution for many situations which heretofore defied a simple form. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Comparison of coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing and multicarrier code division multiple access systems for power line communications

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and multicarrier code division multiple access (MC‐CDMA) systems are comparatively evaluated for power line communications (PLC) in a frequency‐selective fading environment with additive coloured Gaussian noise which is used to model the actual in‐home power line channel. OFDM serves as a benchmark in order to measure the performance of various MC‐CDMA systems, since multicarrier modulation systems are considered the best candidate for this kind of channel. Both single‐user and multi‐user cases are taken into account, making use of the appropriate combiner schemes to take full advantage of each case. System efficiency is enhanced by the application of different coding techniques, a fact which shows that powerful coding can make the difference under such a hostile medium. The impact of block interleaving is investigated, while the simulation examines how different modulation schemes fair under the imposed channel conditions as well. The performance of the system is assessed by the commonly used bit error rate vs signal‐to‐noise ratio diagrams and there is also a comparison regarding throughput efficiency among all the tested systems. As stated in Section 4, a promising PLC application is attained. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Performance Investigation of Space‐Time Block Coded Multicarrier DS‐CDMA in Time‐Varying Channels

In this letter, we evaluate the system performance of a space‐time block coded (STBC) multicarrier (MC) DS‐CDMA system over a time selective fading channel, with imperfect channel knowledge. The average bit error rate impairment due to imperfect channel information is investigated by taking into account the effect of the STBC position. We consider two schemes: STBC after spreading and STBC before spreading in the MC DS‐CDMA system. In the scheme with STBC after spreading, STBC is performed at the chip level; in the scheme with STBC before spreading, STBC is performed at the symbol level. We found that these two schemes have various channel estimation errors, and that the system with STBC before spreading is more sensitive to channel estimation than the system with STBC after spreading. Furthermore, derived results prove that a high spreading factor (SF) in the MC DS‐CDMA system with STBC before spreading leads to high channel estimation error, whereas for a system with STBC after spreading this statement is not true.     

Spectral efficiency of a cellular MC/DS‐CDMA system in Rayleigh fading

The spectral efficiency of a multicarrier direct‐sequence code‐division multiple‐access (MC/DS‐CDMA) cellular system, operating in a mobile radio environment with Rayleigh fading, is investigated and evaluated in terms of channel capacity (in the Shannon sense) per user, estimated in an average sense. The analysis is based on the combination of path‐diversity reception, achieved by a conventional coherent maximal‐ratio combining (MRC) RAKE receiver and the physical frequency diversity potential provided by orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). As shown, a closed‐form expression for the achieved spectral efficiency of the considered system's operation is derived following a recently presented general method. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

MC DS/SFH-CDMA systems for overlay systems

We introduce the slow frequency hopping (SFH) technique to the multicarrier (MC) code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems for overlay situations. Using lower chip rate, which results in a narrower spectrum for each carrier and hopping the signal in frequency, the MC direct sequence (DS)/SFH system achieves better performance than the MC DS CDMA system in most cases, especially when the bandwidth of the narrowband interference (NBI) is narrower than one subchannel. It also exhibits a stable performance against the variations of the NBI location and bandwidth. When there is no NBI, the two systems perform approximately the same. The evaluation is performed over a frequency selective Rayleigh fading channel, with both Gaussian approximation and Monte Carlo simulation     

Performance analysis of an improved multi‐carrier CDMA system under frequency‐selective Rayleigh fading channels

In this article, an analytical method is proposed to study an improved orthogonal multi‐carrier DS/CDMA system, which uses QPSK for both spreading and carrier modulations without redundant sub‐carriers and time interleavers in each sub‐channel. The article concerns in particular such a system and its performance under frequency‐selective Rayleigh fading channels with various delay‐power profiles. The bit error probabilities under varying multipath‐diversity orders (using maximal ratio combing RAKE reception) and different numbers of resolvable multipaths are derived. It has been shown that the system, despite of its structural simplicity, performs well in mitigating frequency‐selective fading. The performance is also evaluated taking into account various other parameter sets, such as numbers of users and sub‐carriers, lengths of PN codes and the number of fingers in an RAKE receiver, etc. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Performance of asynchronous orthogonal multicarrier CDMA system infrequency selective fading channel

An asynchronous multicarrier (MC) direct-sequence (DS) code-division multiple-access (CDMA) scheme for the uplink of the mobile communication system operating in a frequency selective fading channel is analyzed. The bit error rate performance of the system with either equal gain combining or maximum-ratio combining is obtained. Numerical results indicate that the system performs better than that of the conventional DS-CDMA system and another MC-DS-CDMA system     

Narrow‐band interference suppression in wavelet packets based multicarrier multicode CDMA overlay system

The wavelet packets based multicarrier (MC) multicode (MCD) code‐division multiple‐access (CDMA) transceiver consists of the MCD part, which ensures the transmission for high speed and flexible data rate; the MC part contributing to robustness to frequency‐selective fading and flexibility for handling multiple data rates; and wavelet packets (WPs) modulation technique, which contributes to the mitigation of the interference problems. As WPs have lower sidelobes compared with sinusoidal carriers, this system is very effective in reducing the problem of inter‐carrier interference. Of course, like any CDMA system, the system can suppress a given amount of interference. This paper considers an interference suppression scheme which will enhance the performance of the system. The receiver employs suppression filters to mitigate the effect of narrow‐band jammer interference. The framework for the system and the performance evaluation are presented in terms of the bit error rate and the outage probability over a Nakagami fading channel. Also, we investigate how the performance is influenced by various parameters, such as the number of taps of the suppression filter and the ratio of narrow‐band interference bandwidth to the spread‐spectrum bandwidth. Finally, the performance of the system is compared with the performance of sinusoidal based MC/MCD‐CDMA system denoted Sin‐MC/MCD‐CDMA. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Pseudonoise code tracking loop for a CDMA system with imperfect power control

In this paper, performance of a pseudonoise (PN) code tracking loop is analysed and simulated for a direct‐sequence/code‐division‐multiple‐access (DS/CDMA) system with imperfect power control in a multipath fading channel. A non‐coherent first‐order delay‐locked loop (DLL) is considered as a PN code tracking loop. Power control error is modelled as a log‐normally distributed random variable. The multipath fading channel is modelled as a two‐ray Rayleigh fading model that is typically applied to land mobile communication environments. The tracking performance of DLL is evaluated in terms of tracking jitter and mean‐time‐to‐lose‐lock (MTLL). From the simulation results, it is shown that for smaller discriminator offset, tracking jitter performance is improved while MTLL performance is degraded. It is shown that large power control error and heavy shadowing substantially degrade the PN tracking performance. Therefore, an accurate power control scheme is very essential to compensate for fading and shadowing for a DS/CDMA system. The extension of analysis to higher‐order loop models is very straightforward. The analysis in this paper can be applied to design the PN code tracking loop for a DS/CDMA system. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Performance analysis of forward link beamforming techniques forDS/CDMA systems using base station antenna arrays

The performance of DS/CDMA systems using forward link beamforming and RAKE diversity combining is investigated analytically in frequency selective fading channels, whereas previous studies have resorted to Monte Carlo simulations in flat fading channels. The capacity of DS/CDMA systems is considerably improved by employing forward link beamforming     

Multiuser receiver scheme for full‐rate space–time coded CDMA system with imperfect estimation

By introducing a full‐rate space–time coding (STC) scheme, a synchronous CDMA (code division multiple access) system with full‐rate STC is given, and the corresponding uplink performance is investigated in Rayleigh fading channel with imperfect estimation. Considering that existing STC‐CDMA system has high decoding complexity, low‐complexity multiuser receiver schemes are developed for perfect and imperfect estimations, respectively. The schemes can make full use of the complex orthogonality of STC to reduce the high decoding complexity of the existing scheme, and have linear decoding complexity compared with the existing scheme with exponential decoding complexity. Moreover, the proposed schemes can achieve almost the same performance as the existing scheme. Compared with full‐diversity STC‐CDMA, the given full‐rate STC‐CDMA can achieve full data rate, low complexity, and partial diversity, and form efficient spatial interleaving. Thus, the concatenation of channel coding can effectively compensate for the performance loss due to partial diversity. Simulation results show that the full‐rate STC‐CDMA has lower bit error rate (BER) than full‐diversity STC‐CDMA systems under the same system throughput and concatenation of channel code. Moreover, the system BER with imperfect estimation are worse than that with perfect estimation due to the estimation error, which implies that the developed multiuser receiver schemes are valid and reasonable. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

An adaptive multiuser detector for DS‐CDMA systems in multipath fading channels

In this paper, we investigate the performance of an adaptive multistage detection scheme for direct‐sequence code‐division multiple‐access (DS‐CDMA) systems. The first stage consists of an adaptive multiuser detector which is based on the linear constrained minimum variance (LCMV) criterion. The interference cancellation (IC) occurs in the second stage. The performance of the iterative receiver over both flat and frequency‐selective fading channels is investigated and compared to the single‐user bound. In all cases, and under heavy system loads with near‐far problems, the iterative receiver is shown to offer substantial performance improvement and large gain in user‐capacity relative to the standard LCMV. In flat‐fading channels, our results show that the performance of the iterative detector is very close to the single‐user bound. For the frequency‐selective channel, this performance is noted to be in the order of 1 dB far from the single‐user bound. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Multi‐carrier platform for wireless communications. Part 1: High‐performance,high‐throughput TDMA and DS‐CDMA via multi‐carrier implementations

Multi‐carrier technologies in general, and OFDM and MC‐CDMA in particular, are quickly becoming an integral part of the wireless landscape. In this first of a two‐part survey, the authors present the innovative transmit/receive multi‐carrier implementation of TDMA and DS‐CDMA systems. Specifically, at the transmit side, the pulse shape (in TDMA) and the chip shape (in DS‐CDMA) corresponds to a linear combining of in‐phase harmonics (called a CI signal). At the receiver side, traditional time‐domain processing (equalization in TDMA and RAKE reception in DS‐CDMA) is replaced by innovative frequency based processing. Here, receivers decompose pulse (or chip) shapes into carrier subcomponents and recombine these in a manner achieving both high frequency diversity gain and low MAI. The resulting system outperforms traditional TDMA and DS‐CDMA systems by 10–14 dB at typical BERs, and, by application of pseudo‐orthogonal pulse shapes (chip shapes), is able to double system throughput while maintaining performance gains of up to 8 dB. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Performance of DS-CDMA receivers with MRC in nakagami-m fading channels with arbitrary fading parameters

The receivers that combine spatial antenna diversity with temporal multipath diversity are known as two-dimensional (2-D) RAKE receivers. In this paper, we consider the outage probability and the bit error rate performance of a coherent binary phase shift keying 2-D RAKE receiver in the context of an asynchronous direct sequence (DS)-code division multiple access (CDMA) system operating in a Nakagami-m fading channel with real and arbitrary fading parameters. The closed-form expressions derived for the two wireless performance measures are easily evaluated numerically and enable the link designer to examine the effects of system parameters, such as the number of receive antennas, RAKE fingers per antenna, and asynchronous CDMA users in the cell, as well as channel conditions, such as the amount of fading in the combined paths and the multipath intensity profile of the channel on the link performance. In addition, the diversity loss due to correlated fading among the spatially separated RAKE fingers is quantified.     

ZCZ‐CDMA and OFDMA using M‐QAM for broadband wireless communications

This paper considers direct‐sequence code‐division multiple‐access with zero‐correlation zone sequences (ZCZ‐CDMA) and orthogonal frequency‐division multiple‐access (OFDMA) schemes using M‐ary QAM signaling for broadband wireless communications. Their system structures, complexities and performances in both AWGN and multipath frequency‐selective fading channels are evaluated and compared. For ZCZ‐CDMA, joint suppression of the multipath fading interference and multiple‐access interference can be achieved with a reduced family‐size of the spreading sequences. For OFDMA, analytical and simulation results indicate that it has the same performance as ZCZ‐CDMA in fast time‐varying multipath fading channels. In time‐invariant or slowly time‐varying channels, where the channel information can be made available to transmitters, OFDMA outperforms ZCZ‐CDMA, offers a higher capacity and is more flexible for system reconfiguration with a comparable computational complexity. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

采用广义正交序列的多载波DS-CDMA系统在瑞利衰落信道中的性能分析

在CDMA系统中，采用正交序列可以有效地减小多址干扰的影响。然后，当由于多径衰落的影响使码片间的相对移位增加时，系统中用户扩频序列间的相互正交性减弱，导致性能大大恶化。本文基于新近提出的广义正交序列，分析了采用该序列的多载波直接序列码多分址系统在瑞利衰落信道中的误比特性能。数值结果表明，当扩频序列间相互移位在零相关区之内时，扩频序列仍可保持正交，因而大大提高了系统误比特性能。     

OCDD/CDMA: a new DS/CDMA with orthonormal code diversity detection

The paper presents a new spread spectrum communication system called orthonormal code diversity detection (OCDD)/CDMA system based on the novel concept of orthonormal-basis diversity which is a generalization of the existing spread spectrum diversity concepts such as path diversity and frequency diversity. The OCDD/CDMA system is similar to the conventional DS/CDMA system in the transmitter structure, but is different in the receiver structure as it employs the extended orthonormal basis-function set which is the union of the Walsh basis-functions multiplied by the PN sequences and, optionally, their delayed replicas. The received signal is matched to the extended basis functions, and the matched signal components are combined together after individual channel compensation. The proposed OCDD/CDMA system exhibits the bit error performance which is much improved over the conventional DS/CDMA system using maximal ratio combing. In addition, it is robust to the chip timing error, which becomes more crucial in the future DS/CDMA systems having a higher data rate and smaller chip interval. From the simulation results, we confirm that the OCDD/CDMA system is a unique spread spectrum communication technique that can effectively increase the diversity utilization in the slowly fading channel, overcoming the inherent problems in the DS/CDMA and OFDM/CDMA systems     

一种改进的不限重传次数的HARQ重传方案

为了保证数据在无线衰落信道条件下的可靠传输,产生了联合前向纠错编码(FEC)与自动请求重传(ARQ)的混合ARQ(HARQ)技术。HARQ有多种重传方案,本文针对HARQ的无限次重传方案进行了研究,提出了一种改进的基于RCPT码的HARQ重传方案,并分别与传统RCPT-HARQ方案在瑞利快衰落、慢衰落信道下进行仿真比较,仿真结果显示出改进方案在慢衰落信道条件下获得了更高的通过率。     

Vector Channel Estimation and Multiuser Detection for Multicarrier DS CDMA in Time and Frequency Selective Fading Channels

In a multicarrier direct-sequence code-division multiple access (MC DS CDMA) system, different fading channels for different users and/or different carriers are correlated in general; thus a vector channel model is more appropriate than disjoint scalar channel models. For multiuser MC DS CDMA systems, we propose (1) a generalized vector autoregressive model which accounts for correlation between different user/carrier fading channels, (2) the use of a two-phased algorithm to obtain the proposed model’s parameters, and (3) a receiver structure that consists of a generalized decorrelator followed by maximal-ratio combining (MRC) of uncorrelated carrier channel outputs of each user. The estimated fading coefficients provide the necessary quantities to MRC. The computer simulation results show that the proposed scheme has performance close to the case in which the channel is perfectly known, and outperforms separate scalar channel estimation case.     

Packet-length adaptive CLSP/DS-CDMA: performance in burst-error correlated fading channels

The authors analyze throughput-delay performance of an unslotted channel load sensing protocol (CLSP)/direct sequence (DS)-code division multiple access (CDMA) packet radio network (PRN) with adaptive packet length over burst-error correlated fading channels. CLSP controls the packet access in uplink of unslotted ALOHA/DS-CDMA systems so that contention is avoided and throughput is maximized. However, due to high uncertainty of radio channels, the performance of CLSP/DS-CDMA PRN may suffer from notable degradations. Using theoretical analysis and simulation, the authors show that in highly correlated fading environments adapting the length of radio packets to fading conditions significantly improves system performance and energy efficiency of mobile terminals. In their modeling, they study the relation between the fade statistics and the packet length in correlated Rayleigh fading channels. The effects of reception diversity, imperfect transmit power control (TPC), and user mobility are considered. The results are used to develop simple, energy-efficient, and robust adaptation mechanisms.