Space-Time Receiver for Multi-Rate CDMA Systems: Multi-Code and VariableSpreading Length Access Methods Comparison

  • Authors:
  • Jinwen Ma;Hongya Ge

  • Affiliations:
  • Center of Communications and Signal Processing Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Neward, NJ 07102, U.S.A. E-mail: ...;Center of Communications and Signal Processing Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Neward, NJ 07102, U.S.A.

  • Venue:
  • Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This work proposed the linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) space-timereceivers for synchronous multi-rate direct sequence code devision multipleaccess (DS/CDMA) systems. The performance of the proposed receivers isanalyzed. The high-rate (HR) LMMSE space-time receiver with combiningtechnique can provide essentially the same performance for low-rate (LR) usersas LR LMMSE space-time receiver while eliminate the time delay for the HRusers. The performance of the proposed multi-rate LMMSE space-time receiversare studied in the context of two multi-rate access methods: multi-code (MC)access where high data rate users multiplex their information streams ontomultiple codes, and variable spreading length (VSL) access where signaturesequences of different lengths are assigned to users with different datarates.Through the simulation results, we show that: (a) the proposed multi-rateLMMSE space-time receivers are optimum near-far resistant; (b) the proposedmulti-rate LMMSE space-time receivers have a clear performance improvementcompared to the time only LMMSE dual rate receiver; (c) there is a performancegain of the proposed multi-rate LMMSE space-time receivers compared to themulti-rate decorrelating space-time receiver when near-far ratio (NFR) is low;(d) The performance difference between MMSE combining and MRC in multi-ratesystem is much more pronounced than in single-rate system. Simulations alsoshow that the VSL access method is more robust than MC access methodconsidering changing rate-ratio in multi-rate systems.