Traditional Code Division Multiple Access Research Articles

Design of spread spectrum communication system based on multipath signal synthesis

AbstractA low‐complexity anti‐multipath interference spread spectrum communication system is proposed to address shortcomings in traditional anti‐multipath technology, such as complex structures and high resource consumption. The system utilizes a fast Fourier transform to capture pseudo‐noise code signals and simultaneously detect multipath signals. Moreover, the signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) of each path signal is calculated, and the multipath signal is synthesized through the designed optimal SNR synthesis method to improve the SNR of the demodulated signal to reduce the bit error rate. MATLAB is used to perform functional simulations of the system to verify its feasibility. The simulation results show that the system can successfully detect and synthesize multipath signals and achieve lower communication error rates than traditional code division multiple access (CDMA) systems.

High performance mixed optical CDMA system using ZCC code and multiband OFDM

In this paper, we have proposed a high performance network design, which is based on mixed optical Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system using Zero Cross Correlation (ZCC) code and multiband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) called catenated OFDM. In addition, we also investigate the related changing parameters such as; effective power, number of user, number of band, code length and code weight. Then we theoretically analyzed the system performance comprehensively while considering up to five OFDM bands. The feasibility of the proposed system architecture is verified via the numerical analysis. The research results demonstrated that our developed modulation solution can significantly enhanced the total number of user; improving up to 80% for five catenated bands compared to traditional optical CDMA system, with the code length equals to 80, transmitted at 622 Mbps. It is also demonstrated that the BER performance strongly depends on number of weight, especially with less number of users. As the number of weight increases, the BER performance is better.

Combined code reuse scheme with two‐dimensional OVSF codes assignment algorithm for uplink multi‐user/multi‐rate block spread multi‐cellular CDMA

ABSTRACTThe two‐dimensional (2D) block spread code division multiple access (CDMA) can avoid the uplink multiple‐access interference with low‐complexity single‐user detection in a slow fading channel and, therefore, is very attractive. In the 2D spreading, orthogonal variable spreading factor (OVSF) is used for spreading; an important problem is how to efficiently assign the limited resource of OVSF codes to users with different data rates, while meeting the requirement of quality of service in a multi‐cell environment. In this paper, it is shown that the code reuse can improve the code reuse efficiency and the proposed code reuse scheme combined with code assignment algorithm can allow flexible multi‐rate uplink transmission. The computer simulation confirms that the proposed code assignment algorithm improves the code reuse efficiency while achieving lower blocking probability than traditional CDMA. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Space-time network coding

Traditional cooperative communications can improve communication reliability. However, transmissions from multiple relay nodes are challenging in practice. Single transmissions in time-division multiple-access (TDMA) manner cause large transmission delay, but simultaneous transmissions from two or more nodes using frequency-division multiple access (FDMA) and code-division multiple access (CDMA) are associated with the issue of imperfect frequency and timing synchronization. In this work, a novel framework for cooperative communications is proposed to achieve full spatial diversity with low transmission delay and eliminate the issue of imperfect synchronization. This is realized by the use of space-time network codes (STNCs) associated with a novel concept of wireless network cocast. For a network of <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">N</i> client nodes, <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">R</i> relay nodes and a base node, the STNCs provide a diversity order of ( <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">R</i> +1) for each symbol with ( <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">N</i> + <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">R</i> ) time slots, a reduction from 2 <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">N</i> time slots in traditional FDMA and CDMA cooperative communications for <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">N</i> being usually greater than <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">R</i> and from <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">N</i> ( <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">R</i> +1) time slots in traditional TDMA cooperative communications. The STNCs are also applied in networks, where the client nodes located in a cluster act as relays to help one another to improve their transmission performance. The performance in clustering setting is studied to show the improvement in power saving, range extension, and transmission rate.

Directional Diversity of Smart Antenna in LAS CDMA Systems

The performance of code division multiple access (CDMA) systems can be affected by small scale fading such as Rayleigh fading channel. In this paper, the application of smart antenna and Large Area Synchronous CDMA (LAS CDMA) systems, which introduce directional diversity channel, is presented. A novel interference cancellation scheme through dynamic space code (DSC) algorithm is briefly described. The directional diversity can be realized from the directional gain of smart antenna system. It can be found that when the number of elements in smart antenna is increase the directional gain of antenna system is much higher than single antenna. The system performance analysis in term of error probability is compared between traditional and LAS CDMA systems in both single and smart antenna systems. From the performance analysis it is found that CDMA system is more susceptible to multipath fading channel than interferences from existing users.

An Integrated Cluster-Based Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

This paper proposes a novel joint clustering and multi-channel medium access control (MAC) protocol for mobile ad hoc networks, based on a scalable two-phase coding scheme. It employs the first-phase codes for differentiating the clusters and the second-phase codes for distinguishing the nodes in a specific cluster. The proposed protocol effectively integrates the procedure of code assignment with dynamic clustering and henceforth substantially reduces the control overhead of code assignment in a code division multiple access (CDMA) based multi-channel MAC protocol while simultaneously combating the hidden terminal problem. Furthermore, the confliction detection and resolution mechanism for the allocation of the first-phase codes as well as the collision avoidance mechanism for the allocation of the second-phase codes in the control channel are also introduced. Analytical framework and extensive simulation results, in terms of control overhead and delay, are provided and compared to the traditional distributed CDMA based multichannel MAC algorithms with or without clustering.

Improving the capacity of multi-code multimedia CDMA system

A novel method for improving the capacity of multi-code multimedia Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems is proposed. By factitiously improving the transmission bit rate of the call, the number of the orthogonal codes used by a user is increased which leads to the decreasing of the interference. Simulation results shows that the proposed scheme results in better throughput than traditional multi-code CDMA systems.

A Distributed Packet Scheduling Scheme with Interference Avoidance for Non Real-Time Applications in CDMA Networks

In this paper, a packet scheduling scheme based on real-time channel conditions and dominant intercell interferer avoidance is proposed, studied and evaluated for reverse links in a time-slotted code division multiple access (CDMA) system. This scheme is implemented by distribution of tags by receivers among transmitters. Each base station issues M(≥1) tags to M mobile users based on the ranked reverse link gains in every slot. M=1 corresponds to spread-spectrum time division multiplexing mode operation and M≥1 corresponds to scheduling multiple simultaneous transmissions as in the traditional CDMA systems. The number of issued tags is a system parameter which depends on the expected traffic, the number of cells and the propagation conditions in the network. In the proposed scheme, users who not only have stronger channel gains to their respective home base stations but also cause relatively lower intercell interference are scheduled for transmissions. Different classes of tags can be issued and various scheduling decision rules can be implemented giving flexibility in interference management. Simulation results in shadow and multipath fading environment are presented to show the performance advantage of the proposed scheme.

Near-far resistant channel estimation for CDMA systems using the linear decorrelating detector

The well-known linear decorrelating detector (LDD) for direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems provides near-far resistant performance when the timing of each user is accurately known. Traditional CDMA acquisition techniques suffer from high differences in power levels. The estimation accuracy for a user overwhelmed by stronger ones is likely to be unsatisfactory; at the same time, the interference from a user undergoing acquisition or tracking is not removed by the standard LDD. In this paper, a fully near-far resistant technique for acquisition and tracking for asynchronous CDMA systems applying the LDD is proposed, considering realistic band-limited signals. This technique is based on the adoption of a pair of special sequences equivalent to a dedicated access channel and is shown to provide a relatively fast and robust means to perform channel estimation both in case of single- and multipath channels.

CDMA/TDD system for wireless multimedia services with traffic unbalance between uplink and downlink

This paper proposes a code division multiple access (CDMA) time division duplex (TDD) system for wireless multimedia services with traffic unbalance between uplink and downlink. In the proposed system, the number of uplink time slots in a TDD frame differs from that of downlink. Moreover, the difference can be reset by the network operator according to the traffic pattern. We evaluate the performance of the proposed system under multimedia environment using Markov analysis and computer simulation. The results show that the frequency utilization is maximized even when the uplink and downlink traffic volumes are unbalanced. This, in turn, reduces drastically the blocking rate of multimedia calls (connections) in the proposed system compared with that in the traditional CDMA systems where the uplink and downlink use equal bandwidth.

Complexity of Verdu optimum multiuser detection algorithm in multichannel CDMA systems

A statistical characterization of the complexity function of the Verdu optimum multiuser detection (VOMD) algorithm is presented for a communication system employing a finite number of randomly accessed orthogonal channels and a finite number of simultaneous users. Multichannel code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems are proposed. It is proved that the probability, in which the individual channel complexity is greater than A/sup r(1+/spl alpha/)/, approaches zero exponentially fast as the average number of simultaneous users in each channel increases, where A is the modulation alphabet size and /spl alpha/>0. When the number of simultaneous users is large, the complexity of applying the VOMD algorithm to each individual channel is negligible when compared with the complexity of applying the same algorithm directly to the traditional single-channel CDMA system supporting the same number of simultaneous users. The probability distribution of the joint complexity function of the aggregate system is found. It is shown that when the number of simultaneous users is large, the joint complexity function is negligible compared with applying the VOMD algorithm directly to the traditional single-channel CDMA system supporting the same number of simultaneous users. Therefore, a multichannel CDMA communication system can support a comparable population of simultaneous users to the traditional single-channel CDMA system of comparable bandwidth, while reducing the complexity of optimum multiuser detection to a practical level.

Wireless ATM-based multicode CDMA transport architecture for MPEG-2 video transmission

We present a generic ATM-based multicode code division multiple access (CDMA) transport architecture for the Motion Picture Experts Group phase 2 (MPEG-2) compressed video services over a bandlimited mobile channel with the emphasis of wireless asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cell design, spreading code management, and the impact of CDMA systems on the video services. Such services allow users to share novel MPEG-2 video applications without any geographical restrictions. The ATM technique is especially well suited for variable bit rate (VBR) MPEG-2 video because of its ability to allocate bandwidth on demand to these services. However, since the mobile radio has a limited channel capacity, the overall capacity of the traditional ATM-based CDMA system may not be sufficient to accommodate the MPEG-2 video services requested by the multiple mobile users simultaneously. To tackle this difficulty, a multicode CDMA technique is proposed to provide multiple VBR MPEG-2 video services by varying the number of spreading codes assigned to each MPEG-2 video in order to meet its dynamic throughput requirement. Moreover, both the multipath fading and interference on CDMA radio channels tend to cause significant transmission error and MPEG-2 bit streams are very vulnerable to these errors. Powerful forward error connection (FEC) codes are therefore necessary to protect the video data so that it can be successfully transmitted at acceptable signal power level. Two separate FEC code schemes are applied to the header and payload of an ATM cell containing MPEG-2 video data, respectively. The ATM cell header is protected by a relatively powerful FEC code to ensure the low average cell loss rate (CLR). On the other hand, the ATM cell payload is encoded for varying degrees of error protection according to both the priority and statistical behavior of the payload data in MPEG-2 videos. An adaptive FEC code combining scheme is proposed to provide good protection cell payload data with the maximization of its code rate in order to minimize the extra bandwidth for FEC overhead. Two typical MPEG2 test sequences are conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of our system.

Multicarrier CDMA for cellular overlay systems

A code-division multiple access (CDMA) cellular overlay system is investigated, employing the idea of multicarrier CDMA, which has previously received significant attention as an alternative to traditional single-carrier CDMA. Overlay is pursued here as a means of long-term transition from narrowband cellular to CDMA cellular. A major result of this paper is the demonstration that the use of multicarrier CDMA in a fading channel is particularly beneficial to the narrowband system, as the CDMA users can reduce their transmitted powers as a result of diversity. Another significant conclusion is that the use of transmitter notching in the CDMA system in order to avoid active narrowband users outperforms a strategy in which a narrowband user is avoided by simply dropping the particular carrier which overlays it. Finally, results on the use of the minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) receiver in a fading channel are extended for use in the overlay scenario.