A
Novel MC-2D-CDMA Communication
Systems
and Its Detection Methods
Lei
Xiao
*
New Generation of Mobile Networks
Information
&
Communication Networks Group
Siemens Ltd., China
Qinglin
Liang
Electronics Department
Peking University
China
:lh.strtrcr-This paper presents a novel multicarrier-2-
Dimension-code division multiple access (MC-2D-CDMA)
system for forward
link.
Because of the full utilization of
2-
Dimension spreading characteristic, the ability to reject fading
ancl multiple access interference (MAI) is enhanced. For this
system, we examine some diversity combination methods.
Among them, Weighted Least Square Combination (WLSC) has
better performance but is not very suitable for forward link;
Auxiliary Vector Combination (AVC), the combination of
Maximum Ratio Combination (MRC) and Orthogonality
Restoring Correlation (ORC) is very simple and robust, and
very suitable for forward
link
because it does not require any
prior knowledge about other users and noise. The simulation
results show their validity to anti-fading and anti-MAL
I.
INTRODUCTION
Recently, the multicarrier modulation scheme,
or
orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) has
drawn a lot of attention because of its anti-fading capability
and the need to transmit high data rate. By using the fast
Fourier transform (FFT) and inverse transform
(IFFT),
the
multicarrier scheme not increases the complexities but
achieve high spectral efficiency.
To provide higher capacity, the combination of
multicarrier and code division multiple access (CDMA)
is
also
developed[2]. According to their multiple access
characteristics, these systems can be categorized into two
types, spreading and multiple access in the frequency field,
called MC-CDMA[3]-[5],
or
spreading and multiple access
in the time field, called Multicarrier DS-CDMA[6][7]. In the
former system, a spreading sequence is serial-to-parallel
converted and modulates different carriers, and different
users utilize different spreading codes in the frequency field.
In the latter system, each carrier is used to transmit a
narrowband DS waveform, and different users utilize
different spreading codes in the time field.
This paper presents a novel MC-2D-CDMA system for
forward link. In this system, spreading and multiple access
are carried out both in the frequency field and in the time
field. Compared with MC-CDMA, MC-2D-CDMA has better
anti-MA1 capability due to spreading in the time field.
Compared with Multicarrier DS-CDMA, MC-2D-CDMA has
better anti-fading capability due to frequency diversity
resulting from spreading in the frequency field. Because of
the full utilization of 2-Dimension spreading characteristic,
the capability of multi-access is increased greatly and the
frequency diversity provides anti-fading ability.
In the MC-2D-CDMA system, two spreading sequences
are used, one in the frequency field and the other in the time
field. Some users are discriminated by different spreading
codes in the time field, and others are discriminated by
different spreading codes in the frequency field. For the
former, the simple matched filter can distinguish them very
well because the orthogonality between spreading codes are
maintained due to frequency-nonselective fading in each
carrier. For the latter, many detection schemes for MC-
CDMA, such as MRC, ORC, EGC, MLD, MMSEC, MUD
and
so
on[l], are also suitable to distinguish these users.
However, due to multiple access interference (MAI),
conventional detection schemes, such as MRC and EGC,
perform not well, while performancewise detection schemes,
such as MLD, MMSEC and MUD, require the prior
knowledge about other users and are usually very complex.
So,
for this system, we present and examine some new
diversity combination methods. Among them, WLSC and
MMSEC have better performance since they consider the
signal and interference comprehensively. However they
require the knowledge about other users’ signal, which is an
unrealistic requirement for forward link, and their complexity
increase greatly with the increase of the number of users and
the number of carriers. We also provide simpler
approximating algorithm for them. Moreover, for decreasing
the complexity further, we present Auxiliary Vector
Combination (AVC), the combination of Maximum Ratio
Combination (MRC) and Orthogonality Restoring
Correlation (ORC). Due to the good anti-fading capability
of
MRC and good anti-MA1 capability of ORC, the AVC
receiver has great capability
to
reject
both
fading and MAI,
but avoids their drawbacks. Moreover, AVC is very simple
and robust, and very suitable for forward link because it does
not require any prior knowledge about other users and noise.
This paper firstly presents system description in section
I1
including channel model, transmitter model and receiver
model. Then we examine some diversity combination
methods in section
111
and verify their performances by
simulation in section IV. Finally conclusions are presented in
section V.
11.
SYSTEM DESCRlPTlON
A.
Channel
Model
*
1
his
work
was finished when the author was studying for doctor degree in Peking University
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