Broadband CDMA techniques

  • Authors:
  • F. Adachi;D. Garg;S. Takaoka;K. Takeda

  • Affiliations:
  • Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Wireless Communications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

A very high-speed wireless access of 100 Mb/s to 1 Gb/s is required for fourth-generation mobile communications systems. However, for such high-speed data transmissions, the channel is severely frequency-selective due to the presence of many interfering paths with different time delays. A promising wireless access technique that can overcome the channel frequency-selectivity and even take advantage of this selectivity to improve the transmission performance is CDMA. There may be two approaches in CDMA technique: direct sequence CDMA and multicarrier CDMA. A lot of attention is paid to MC-CDMA. However, recently it has been revealed that DS-CDMA can achieve good performance comparable to MC-CDMA if proper frequency domain equalization is adopted. This article discusses their similarities and performances. A major transmission mode in 4G systems is packet-based. Automatic repeat request combined with channel coding is a very important technique. Recent research activity on this technique is also introduced.