Quaternary constant-amplitude codes for multicode CDMA

  • Authors:
  • Kai-Uwe Schmidt

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC and Communications Laboratory, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A constant-amplitude code is a code that reduces the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in multicode code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA) systems to the favorable value 1. In this paper, quaternary constant-amplitude codes (codes over Z4) of length 2m with error-correction capabilities are studied. These codes exist for every positive integer m, while binary constant-amplitude codes cannot exist if m is odd. Every word of such a code corresponds to a function from the binary m-tuples to Z4 having the bent property, i.e., its Fourier transform has magnitudes 2m/2. Several constructions of such functions are presented, which are exploited in connection with algebraic codes over Z4 (in particular quaternary Reed-Muller, Kerdock, and Delsarte-Goethals codes) to construct families of quaternary constant-amplitude codes. Mappings from binary to quaternary constant-amplitude codes are presented as well.