IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS, VOL. 19, NO. 4, APRIL 2015 585
The Autocorrelation Magnitude of Balanced Binary Sequence Pairs of Prime
Period
N ≡ 1(mod 4) With Optimal Cross-Correlation
Yang Yang, Xiaohu Tang, Member, IEEE, and Zhengchun Zhou
Abstract—In this paper, for balanced binary sequence pairs
(BBSPs for short) of period N ≡ 1(mod 4), the optimality of
their cross-correlation is determined. Next, a lower bound on the
maximal out-of-phase autocorrelation magnitude is established for
BBSPs of period N ≡ 1(mod 4) with optimal cross-correlation.
Furthermore, BBSPs with optimal cross-correlation whose max-
imal out-of-phase autocorrelation magnitude achieves the new
lower bound are constructed based on the cyclotomy of order 4.
These proposed sequences have a periodic total squared correla-
tion value meeting the Ganapathy-Pados-Karystinos bound, and
are therefore an option for use in asynchronous CDMA systems.
Index Terms—Sequence pairs, balanced, binary sequences,
cyclotomy.
I. INTRODUCTION
A
SEQUENCE u = {u
i
}
N−1
i=0
, where u
i
∈{±1}, is called a
binary sequence of period N.ThesetU = {0 ≤ i<N :
u
i
= −1} is called the characteristic set of u.If|U| = N/2 for
even N or |U| =(N ± 1)/2 for odd N, where |U| denotes the
cardinality of U , then such a sequence u is called a balanced
sequence.
Let u = {u
i
}
N−1
i=0
and v = {v
i
}
N−1
i=0
be two binary se-
quences of period N.Theperiodic cross-correlation function
of u and v is defined as
R
u,v
(τ)=
N−1
i=0
u
i
v
i+τ
, 0 ≤ τ<N.
where the subscript i + τ is performed modulo N.Ifu =
v, then R
u,v
is called the periodic autocorrelation function,
denoted by R
u
for short.
Binary sequences with low correlation have very significant
applications in communication systems, radar and cryptogra-
phy [5], [6]. For example, in an asynchronous direct-sequence
code division multiple access (CDMA), balanced or almost
balanced sequences with good autocorrelation property are
considered to be good sequences from the point of view of
randomness [11]. Sequences should have low autocorrelation
to eliminate the effect of multipath, and low cross-correlation
to extract the desired user’s signal from the rest of the users.
Manuscript received January 2, 2015; revised February 5, 2015; accepted
February 6, 2015. Date of publication February 10, 2015; date of current
version April 8, 2015. This work was supported in part by the NSFC under
Grants 61401376 and 61201243, and the Sichuan Provincial Youth Science and
Technology Fund under Grant 2015JQO004. The associate editor coordinating
the review of this paper and approving it for publication was M. F. Flanagan.
Y. Yang and Z. Zhou are with the School of Mathematics, Southwest Jiao-
tong University, Chengdu 610031, China (e-mail: yang_data@swjtu.edu.cn;
zczhou@swjtu.edu.cn).
X. Tang is with the Information Security and National Computing Grid
Laboratory, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China (e-mail:
xhutang@swjtu.edu.cn).
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/LCOMM.2015.2402278
TABLE I
C
OMPARISON OF KNOWN OPTIMAL BBSPs OF
ODD PRIME PERIOD N ≡ 1(mod 4)
In the past decades, a number of constructions of balanced
binary sequences with optimal autocorrelation have been pro-
posed (see [1], [2], [6], [8], [12] and the references therein).
In [3], Ding and Tang established lower bounds on the cross-
correlation magnitude of two balanced binary sequences with
optimal autocorrelation, which are better than the Sarwate
bound [9] on the cross-correlation of binary sequence pairs
with optimal autocorrelation. As a result, optimal balanced
binary sequence pairs (BBSPs for short) of period N were
obtained such that two balanced binary sequences have the op-
timal out-of-phase autocorrelation {1, −3} and also possess the
minimal maximum cross-correlation magnitude
√
N, where
N ≡ 1(mod 4) is an odd prime.
In this paper, we will study the BBSPs which are optimal in
another way, namely that two balanced binary sequences with
optimal cross-correlation have the minimal maximum autocor-
relation magnitude as well. We firstly determine that the opti-
mal cross-correlation of BBSPs of period N ≡ 1(mod 4) takes
the value 1 or −3. Secondly, we discuss the lower bound on
the maximal out-of-phase autocorrelation magnitude of BBSPs
with optimal cross-correlation. Finally, based on the cyclotomic
numbers of order 4 [10], we present a class of pairs of bal-
anced binary sequences with cross-correlation {1, −3} and the
maximal out-of-phase autocorrelation magnitude
√
N, which
achieves the new lower bound. For comparison, the parameters
of the two types of optimal BBSPs are listed in Table I. Those
sequence pairs have a periodic total squared correlation ( PTSC)
value meeting the Ganapathy-Pados-Karystinos bound [7], and
are therefore suited for asynchronous CDMA systems.
II. C
YCLOTOMIC NUMBERS
In this section, we shall give a short introduction to cyclo-
tomic numbers which will be used in the sequel to construct
new BBSPs.
In this paper, assume that N =4f +1, where f is a positive
integer. In particular, let N =4f +1 be an odd prime in this
section and in Section V.
Let α be a primitive element of the integer residue ring Z
N
=
{0, 1, ···,N−1} such that for any j ∈ Z
N
\{0}, there exists
an integer k satisfying j = α
k
. Denote by D
0
a multiplicative
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