Performance Of Code Division Multiple Access Research Articles

CDMA System Design and Capacity Analysis Under Disguised Jamming

This paper considers robust code division multiple access (CDMA) system design and capacity analysis under disguised jamming, where the jammer generates a fake signal using the same spreading code, constellation, and pulse shaping filter as that of the authorized signal. Unlike Gaussian jamming, which is destructive only when jamming is dominant, disguised jamming can be devastating even if the jamming power is comparable to the signal power. In this paper, first, we analyze the performance of the conventional CDMA under disguised jamming, and show that due to the symmetricity between the authorized signal and the jamming interference, the receiver cannot really distinguish the authorized signal from jamming, leading to complete communication failure. Second, we propose to combat disguised jamming using secure scrambling. Instead of using conventional scrambling codes, we apply advanced encryption standard to generate the security-enhanced scrambling codes. Theoretical analysis based on the arbitrarily varying channel model shows that the capacity of conventional CDMA without secure scrambling under disguised jamming is actually zero; however, secure scrambling can break the symmetricity between the authorized signal and the jamming interference, and hence ensures positive channel capacity under disguised jamming. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of secure scrambling in combating disguised jamming.

Performance of multihop CDMA ad hoc networks with diversity combining techniques over fading environments

This study investigates the impact of the diversity combining techniques on the performance of wireless code division multiple access (CDMA) ad hoc networks operating over κ-μ fading channels, where the performance criterion in this study is in terms of the expected progress per hop. The probability density function (PDF) and the cumulative density function (CDF) of the interference power are obtained in κ-μ fading conditions. Furthermore, expression for the unconditional CDF of the signal-to-noise-and-interference ratio (SNIR) is derived, which is utilized to derive expressions for the expected progress per hop with selecting combining (SC) and maximal ratio combining (MRC) diversity. Corresponding expressions for Nakagami-m and Rician fading are presented in this paper as special cases of κ-μ fading. Numerical results are presented for illustration purposes.

Comparative Study of OFDM and CDMA Technique

Orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) modulation is being used more and more in telecommunication both in wired and wireless. This modulation technique has several advantages, reason for its increasing usage in communication. OFDM can provide high data rates, it can be implemented easily, it is spectrally efficient and with sufficient robustness to channel imperfections. On the other hand most third generation mobile phone systems are using Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) as their modulation technique. For this reason, CDMA is also investigating so that the performance of both CDMA and OFDM can be compared. It is found that OFDM performs extremely well when compared with CDMA, and provide very high tolerance to multipath delay spread, channel noise, and peak power clipping. In addition to this it provides a high spectral efficiency The noise performance of OFDM is found to depend solely on the modulation technique used for modulating each carrier of the signal. The OFDM signal performance is found to be the same as for a single carrier system, using the same modulation technique and can provide large data rates with sufficient robustness to radio channel impairments The minimum signal to noise ratio (SNR) required for BPSK was ~7 dB, where as it was ~12 dB for QPSK and ~25 dB for 16PSK. CDMA was found to perform poorly in a single cellular system, with each cell only allowing 7-16 simultaneous users in a cell, compared with 128 for OFDM.1.25 MHz bandwidth and 19.5 kbps user data rate was used for it. This low cell capacity of CDMA was attributed to the use of non-orthogonal codes used in the reverse transmission link, leading to a high level of inter-user interference.

Performance Evaluation of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) in terms of Power Measurement and Reduction

In this research paper the performance of the CDMA system has been analyzed with respect to PAPR (Peak to Average Power Ratio) measurement and its reduction. Simulation results verify that high peaks degrade the performance of CDMA, application of codes reduced high peaks and PAPR is a good measure for CDMA.

Performance Evaluation of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) in terms of Power Measurement and Reduction

In this research paper the performance of the CDMA system has been analyzed with respect to PAPR (Peak to Average Power Ratio) measurement and its reduction. Simulation results verify that high peaks degrade the performance of CDMA, application of codes reduced high peaks and PAPR is a good measure for CDMA.

Two‐stage detection of partitioned random CDMA

AbstractRandom Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) with low complexity two‐stage joint detection/decoding is considered. A sequence partitioning approach is used for modulation, where every spreading sequence is divided into M sections (partitions) which are interleaved prior to transmission. This setup, called partitioned CDMA, can be understood as a generalisation of (chip) interleave division multiple access (IDMA). An analysis of a low‐complexity iterative cancellation receiver is presented for arbitrary received power distributions. It is shown that for equal rate and equal power users the asymptotic performance of partitioned CDMA is equal to the performance of CDMA with optimal a posteriori probability (APP) detection for system loads K/N < 1.49. Effects of asynchronous signal transmission are quantified for standard pulse shaping filters and it is shown that the signal‐to‐noise ratios achievable in an asynchronous system are improved with respect to fully synchronous transmission. The effect of unequal received powers is examined and considerable gains in performance are obtained by judicious choices of power distributions. For certain power distribution, partitioned CDMA with iterative detection can achieve arbitrary system loads, that is detection is no longer fundamentally interference limited. The practical near‐far resistance of the proposed system is illustrated using an example of a receiver with a circular receive footprint and uniformly distributed transmitters (single cell system). Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Performance and Optimization of Multistage Partial Parallel Interference Cancellation for Wideband CDMA Systems in Multipath Fading Channels

In this paper, a closed-form bit error rate (BER) of hard-decision multistage partial parallel interference cancellation (PPIC) having perfect and imperfect channel estimation for complex spreading code-division multiple access (CDMA) over multipath Rayleigh channels was derived. The effects of receiving BER, power ratio of pilot to data channels, multiple-access interference (MAI) and multipath interference, additive white Gaussian noise, and other factors affecting channel estimation error are analyzed. The expression determining the optimal interference cancellation weight at path level for PPIC is first derived. Then, the oscillatory behavior of user-level-optimized PIC and the convergence of perfect channel estimation PIC and path-level-optimized PIC are validated. Results indicate that all factors determining the optimal weight certainly affect the BER performance of PPIC and that the lower BER limit of multistage PPIC depends on the adjustable factors, which include power ratio, observation length, and signal-to-noise ratio, and an unchangeable factor, i.e., number of users. In addition, the variance of MAI for complex spreading sequence is obtained, and the analytical expression can also be employed to predict the performance of multicode CDMA

Performance analysis of optical wireless indoor dual-amplitude pulse interval modulator code-division multiple-access systems

The performance of code-division multiple access (CDMA) as a multiple-access technique for optical wireless communications is evaluated. The information data is modulated through dual-amplitude pulse interval modulation (DAPIM). Optical orthogonal code is used as the signature sequence. The upper bound and lower bound on the exact probability of errors per slot and per packet are derived in the presence of ambient background noise. We investigate the performance characteristics for various system parameters, including the SNR of the source information bits, receiver threshold, DAPIM order, and number of users.

Performance of CDMA With Differential Detection in the Presence of Phase Noise and Multiuser Interference

Phase noise can be a major source of performance degradation in low-cost, low-bit-rate digital systems operating in the millimeter wavelength band. The use of code-division multiple access (CDMA) for several new applications is envisaged, and the study of the effects of phase noise shows that even CDMA systems exhibit a performance degradation comparable to that of standard modulation formats. The use of CDMA with a differential modulation at the chip level improves the system performance with a simpler demodulator at the expense of the enhancement of multiuser interference. In this paper we propose a new approach to CDMA modulation, and a possible solution is suggested to obtain a tradeoff between the performance degradation due to the phase noise and to the multiuser interference.

Forward-link performance of satellite CDMA with linear interference suppression and one-step power control

Wideband direct-sequence (DS)-code-division multiple-access (CDMA) is a strong candidate for both terrestrial and satellite components of UMTS. The forward-link capacity of a satellite DS-CDMA system with a conventional matched filter (MF) receiver is limited by interference from adjacent beams and possibly overlapping beams from multiple satellites. In this paper, we study the performance of the linear minimum mean squared error (MMSE) receiver for the satellite forward link. System constraints are long propagation delay, which prevents accurate closed-loop power control, and low on-board power consumption, which implies a low received bit energy to noise density ratio at the mobile receiver. We consider a one-step power adjustment algorithm which attempts to compensate for random shadowing and path loss, and compare the associated performance of the MMSE and MF receivers. Dual-satellite diversity is also considered. The effect of code rate on performance is studied through the use of punctured convolutional codes and the evaluation of random coding bounds. Our results indicate that linear MMSE interference suppression can improve the quality of service and increase system capacity significantly.

Performance of multicarrier CDMA with DPSK modulation and differential detection in fading multipath channels

Multicarrier (MC) direct sequence (DS) code division multiple access (CDMA) with differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) modulation and differential detection is proposed. Transmitted data bits are differentially encoded after serial-to-parallel conversion to a number of parallel streams. On each branch, encoded bits are direct sequence spread spectrum (SS) modulated and transmitted using different carriers. The system is analyzed with a differential detector in static Rayleigh fading multipath channel, in fast Rayleigh fading multipath channel and for variable overlapping between carrier spectra in static fading channel. Closed-form expressions are derived for the error probability and evaluated for many cases. The performance is compared to that of a system using phase-shift keying (PSK) with conventional matched filter (CMF) coherent receiver. For static fading channel, the error probability performance of the differential detector is close to that of CMF receiver. For fast fading, the performance degrades slightly with increasing fading rate. Finally; successive carriers of the system are allowed to overlap with various overlapping percentages. The condition of a single path can be achieved by increasing both the number of carriers and the separation between successive carriers. Also, for each number of carriers, there exists an optimum overlapping percentage at which the system performance is optimized. The performance of the proposed DPSK with differential detection system is close to that of PSK with CMF receiver, but the former is simpler to implement.

CDMA Performance in Tactical Applications

Dean, R. A., CDMA Performance in Tactical Applications, Digital Signal Processing 12 (2002) 242–251 This paper develops some advantages of IS95-based code division multiple access (CDMA) for military tactical applications by comparing the power efficiency of CDMA to current tactical radios which employ digital FM (DFM) technology. A definition of power efficiency is developed along with a simple model for comparing CDMA with DFM. A power efficiency performance differential is then developed based on modulation, multipath, and power control features. This performance differential is then adapted to show performance gains for intercept, detection, and geolocation. Intercept range is reduced by a factor of 2–6, and detection and geolocation range are reduced by a factor of 10–30 for the examples selected.

MMSE detection of multicarrier CDMA

Minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) detection of multicarrier code-division multiple-access (CDMA) signals is investigated. The theoretical performance of two different design strategies for MMSE detection are compared. In one case, the MMSE filters are designed separately for each carrier, while in the other case the optimization of the filters is done jointly. Naturally, the joint optimization produces a better receiver, but the difference in performance is shown to be substantial. The multicarrier CDMA performance is then compared to that of a single-carrier CDMA system on a frequency-selective fading channel. A mechanism is then developed to track the channel fading parameters for all the users' signals so that joint optimization of the receiver filters is possible in a time-varying channel. Simulation results show that the performance of this receiver is close to ideal theoretical results for moderate vehicle speeds. The performance begins to degrade when the normalized Doppler rate is higher than about 1%.

Performance of cellular CDMA with cell site antenna arrays, Rayleigh fading, and power control error

The performance of code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems is affected by multiple factors such as large-scale fading, small-scale fading, and cochannel interference (CCI). Most of the published research on the performance analysis of CDMA systems usually accounts for subsets of these factors. In this work, it is attempted to provide a comprehensive analysis which joins several of the most important factors affecting the performance of CDMA systems. In particular, new analytical expressions are developed for the outage and bit-error probability of CDMA systems. These expressions account for adverse effects such as path loss, large-scale fading (shadowing), small-scale fading (Rayleigh fading), and CCI, as well as for correcting mechanisms such as power control (compensates for path loss and shadowing), spatial diversity (mitigates against Rayleigh fading), and voice activity gating (reduces CCI). The new expressions may be used as convenient analysis tools that complement computer simulations. Of particular interest are tradeoffs revealed among system parameters, such as maximum allowed power control error versus the number of antennas used for spatial diversity.

CDMA transmitter filtering for cellular overlay systems

In this paper, the overlay of a code-division multiple-access (CDMA) cellular system in a frequency band which is already providing service to a narrow-band cellular system is investigated. The motivation for this study is to demonstrate the potential of CDMA overlay as an efficient method for making a long-term transition from narrow-band cellular to CDMA cellular. For the single cell case, it was shown by Rainbolt and Miller (see IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., vol.16, p.1756-64, 1998) that interference caused to the narrow-band system by even a lightly-loaded CDMA system is significant, a problem which can be greatly alleviated through the use of notch filtering in the CDMA transmitters to avoid active narrow-band users. Similar conclusions will be reached in this paper for the cellular case. The effects of notching on CDMA performance will be looked at in detail, and it will be shown that the notching is less of a problem than is the narrow-band interference inherent in overlay systems.

Comparison of multicarrier DS-CDMA broadcast systems in a multipath fading channel

The performance of a multicarrier direct sequence code-division multiple-access (CDMA) system employed in the forward link of a cellular system operating over a Rayleigh fading channel is analyzed and compared to the performance of both single-carrier CDMA and hybrid multicarrier CDMA/frequency division multiplexing systems. A RAKE receiver is provided for each subcarrier. We compare the performance of all three systems for various multipath intensity profiles. It is found that for a service requiring high quality and a small number of users, the multicarrier system is the best, but for a service requiring low quality and a large number of users, the hybrid system can support more users than the others. Also, for the case when nonorthogonal codes are used, the multiple-access interference in different resolvable paths are correlated. In that case, to maximize the signal-to-noise ratio in a correlated interference environment; maximal-ratio combining (MRC) is not optimal. However, we found that there is not much difference between the optimum combining and the conventional MRC.

Approximate analysis of narrow-band interference rejection technique in CDMA spread spectrum systems using nonlinear prediction filters

The performance of code-division multiple access (CDMA) spread spectrum systems using nonlinear prediction filters in the presence of narrow-band interference is approximately analyzed. Closed-form approximate analytical expressions for the performance improvement are derived. Also, the closed-form approximate analytical results are compared with simulated results by numerical examples. The comparison results show that the analytical results are valid when the interference bandwidth is small.

Successive interference cancellation for multiuser asynchronous DS/CDMA detectors in multipath fading links

There has been an increasing interest in the use of code-division multiple access (CDMA) in cellular mobile and wireless personal communications. The choice of such multiaccess technique is attractive because of its potential capacity increases and other technical factors such as privacy and multipath rejection capabilities. However, it is well known that the performance of CDMA can be significantly degraded due to cochannel interference (CI) and the near-far effects. We consider the performance of direct-sequence (DS)-based CDMA over fading channels that are modeled as slowly varying Rayleigh-fading discrete multipath channels. Specifically, we propose and analyze an adaptive multistage interference cancellation strategy for the demodulation of asynchronous DS spread-spectrum multiple-access signals. Numerical results show that the proposed multistage detector, which alleviates the detrimental effects of the near-far problem, can significantly improve the system performance.

Fast simulation of DS/CDMA with and without coding in multipath fading channels

Code-division multiple access (CDMA) has found widespread applications in various applications such as advanced wireless technologies and digital cellular communications. We consider the error-rate performance of asynchronous direct-sequence CDMA in a wireless radio communications environment that is characterized by Rayleigh multipath fading channels. Because of the system complexity, the performance of CDMA systems in such an environment is difficult to assess analytically. Monte Carlo simulations can offer an alternative performance evaluation tool. Unfortunately, in practice, such an alternative is often limited by an excessive computational burden. Importance sampling is a variance reduction technique which can significantly reduce the computational cost required by Monte Carlo simulations. This paper describes the basic principles behind this powerful technique. In particular, it illustrates its use as a computationally efficient and accurate tool for computer-aided design and analysis of uncoded as well as coded CDMA in wireless communications.

Downlink DS CDMA performance over a mobile satellite channel

Code division multiple access (CDMA) has been proposed for personal communications networks for both terrestrial and satellite links. We analyze the performance of the downlink (i.e., the base-to-mobile link) of a low earth orbiting (LEO) mobile satellite channel. An important characteristic of this fading channel is that the desired signal and the multiple access interference from all spot beams of the corresponding satellite fade simultaneously. In this respect, the satellite downlink is also different from its terrestrial counterpart. A two-state fading channel model is considered. In the nonshadowed state, the signal envelope is characterized by Rician statistics and in the shadowed state by the Rayleigh statistics. We analyze the probability of error performance when coherent detection, diversity, spectrum sharing by two service providers, and forward error correction are employed.