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Performance analysis of an improved multi‐carrier CDMA system under frequency‐selective Rayleigh fading channels
Author(s) -
Chen HsiaoHwa
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.610
Subject(s) - rake receiver , computer science , rayleigh fading , multipath propagation , fading , phase shift keying , rake , maximal ratio combining , code division multiple access , channel (broadcasting) , electronic engineering , diversity scheme , algorithm , telecommunications , spread spectrum , bit error rate , engineering , mechanical engineering
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.