Noncoherent Code Acquisition Research Articles

Performance Analysis and Comparison of Full Chip and Half Chip Rate DC and NC Code Acquisition in MIMO DSCDMA over Uncorrelated Rayleigh Wireless Channel

This paper presents the performance analysis and comparison of full chip and half chip rate of noncoherent (NC) and differentially coherent (DC) code acquisition scheme in (multiple input-multiple output) MIMO assisted by direct sequence spread spectrum (DS-CDMA) wireless system when communicated over uncorrelated Rayleigh channel. Four schemes are investigated, namely, SISO with full chip rate, SISO with Half chip rate, MIMO with full chip rate, and MIMO with half chip rate by varying the code acquisition technique. The simulation is done in RF signal processing Lab using matlab tool box, and the performance metrics are considered, namely, Bit Error Rate (BER) and mean acquisition time (MAT). The simulation results indicate that DC performance is superior than NC in both full chip and half chip rate and also shown that half chip performance is better than full chip in both DC and NC code acquisition methods.

Non-Coherent Code Acquisition in the Multiple Transmit/Multiple Receive Antenna Aided Single- and Multi-Carrier DS-CDMA Downlink

We analyse the characteristics of the Non-Coherent (NC) Multiple Transmit/Multiple Receive (MTMR) antenna aided Multi-Carrier (MC) DS-CDMA downlink employing a serial search based acquisition scheme, when communicating over spatially uncorrelated Rayleigh channels. The associated Mean Acquisition Time (MAT) performance trends are characterised as a function of both the number of antennas and that of the number of subcarriers. It is shown that the employment of both multiple transmit antennas and multiple subcarriers is typically detrimental in terms of the achievable NC acquisition performance, while that obtained by exploiting multiple receive antennas is always beneficial, regardless whether single-path or multi-path scenarios are considered. Based on our results justified by information theoretic considerations, our acquisition design guidelines are applicable to diverse NC MTMR antenna aided scenarios.

Differentially coherent code acquisition in the MIMO-aided multi-carrier DS-CDMA downlink

Both differentially coherent and non-coherent code acquisition schemes designed for the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-aided multi-carrier (MC)-DS-CDMA downlink are analysed, when communicating over uncorrelated Rayleigh channels. The attainable mean acquisition time (MAT) performance is studied as a function of both the number of multiple transmit/multiple receive antennas and that of the number of subcarriers. It is demonstrated that in contrast to the expectations, when the number of multiple transmit antennas and/or that of the subcarriers is increased in both the differentially coherent and the non-coherent code acquisition scenarios, the achievable MAT deteriorates over the entire signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) per chip (Ec/Io) range considered, except for the scenario of single-carrier (SC)-DS-CDMA using P ¼ 2 transmit antennas and R ¼ 1 receive antenna. As expected, the degree of performance degradation depends upon the specific scheme and the Ec/Io ratio considered, although paradoxically, the correctly synchronised MIMO-aided system is capable of attaining its target bit error ratio performance at reduced SINR values.

Noncoherent sequential code acquisition based on simplified maximum likelihood ratios

In this paper, we consider the noncoherent code acquisition problem using sequential schemes. To alleviate the computational complexity of the maximum likelihood method, simplified schemes are proposed and analyzed for the truncated sequential probability ratio test. The performance of the simplified and original schemes are compared in additive white Gaussian noise and slowly varying fading channels. Numerical results show that the proposed schemes have essentially the same performance as the original schemes while allowing simpler structures.