Construction of Shift-Based Sequence Sets for M-ary Spread Spectrum OFDM
Communications
Guixin Xuan
1, 2
Shibiao He
2
Lili Xiao
2
Zhenyu Zhang
1, 2
Fanxin Zeng
1, 2
1. College of Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China;
2. Chongqing Communication Institute, Chongqing, China.
guixinxuan@hotmail.com, hdoctor@vip.sina.com, zhenyu.zhang@cqu.edu.cn
ABSTRACT
For M-ary spread spectrum (MSS) communication
systems with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
(OFDM) technique, a simple scheme to generate lots of
MSS sequences is presented on the basis of circular shift
and selection operation. The number of the generated
sequences is far larger than sequence length at the cost of
the decreased correlation property, which is significantly
important to improve spectrum efficiency of MSS-OFDM
systems since more sequences may support higher data
rate. We provide the related simulations and analyses of
the decreased correlation property. Also, the
peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of the generated
sequences is calculated and discussed due to OFDM
modulation. The evaluation results show that the
proposed scheme may obtain a good trade-off between
spectrum efficiency and bit error rate performance.
Keywords: M-ary spread spectrum, Correlation
Property, Orthogonality, OFDM, PAPR
1. INTRODUCTION
Direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) will effectively
resist narrowband interference since it may obtain
processing gain (PG) by spreading one information bit
into multiple chips, which leads to its wide applications
[1]. To accommodate simultaneously more active users,
the DSSS-based code division multiple access (CDMA)
method were generally considered [2], where each user
was assigned one sequence with good auto-correlation
function (ACF) property and different sequences
possessed good cross-correlation function (CCF)
property. However, for point-to-point link
communications, DSSS only has low spectrum
efficiency [3-4]. As another spread spectrum technique
with high spectrum efficiency, M-ary spread spectrum
(MSS) may map multiple bits into one of a group of
spreading sequences, and then obtain higher data rate
than traditional DSSS method [5]. In order to further
obtain robust anti-jamming performance and higher
bandwidth efficiency, the combination scheme of MSS
and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM),
namely MSS-OFDM system, was proposed [6-7]. The
idea of MSS-OFDM is similar to that of
multicarrier-CDMA (MC-CDMA) since both of them
not only can obtain PG from spread spectrum technique,
but also possess free inter-symbol interference ability
from OFDM modulation.
As a key point of MSS-OFDM or MC-CDMA, the
spreading sequence plays an important role. In addition
to Walsh-Hadamard (W-H) sequences used in
MSS-OFDM systems [6] and Gold sequences used in
high frequency MSS communications [4],
complementary sequences and quasi-complementary
sequences were widely employed in MC-CDMA
systems [8-12]. It is well known that complementary
sequence set only has small set size in spite of its ideal
aperiodic ACF and CCF [13]. In order to obtain larger
set size, cyclic shifted orthogonal complementary
(Cyclic-OC) sequences were constructed [14], where its
set size can achieve PG and it may obtain better bit error
rate (BER) performance than W-H sequences. However,
such construction omits peak-to-average power ratio
(PAPR) resistance which has an important effect on
OFDM modulation.
In our previous works [7, 15], several complementary
sequence-based MSS sets were proposed for
MSS-OFDM systems. However, these sets only
possessed the small number of sequences, that is, the set
size is not larger than sequence length. Since small set
size means low data rate, the previous sequence sets only
had relatively low spectrum efficiency. In this paper, we
propose a simple construction method based on shift
operation. By using the proposed method, the previous
sequence set with small set size may be expanded into
multiple sets, which will result in lots of available
sequences for MSS-OFDM communication systems. As
the cost of the increased number of MSS sequences, their
correlation properties and PAPR performance will
decrease to some extent.
2. PRELIMINARY KNOWLEDGE
2.1
Correlation properties of sequence set
Given two sequences
(0),(1),,( 1)
ii i i
CC CL C "
and
(0), (1), , ( 1)
jj j j
CC CL C "
with sequence
length
L , the aperiodic CCF
,
()
ij
W
CC
and periodic
CCF
,
()
ij
W
CC
between
i
C and
j
C
can be
respectively expressed as
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