Multi-Rate Access Schemes for MC-CDMA

  • Authors:
  • Mizhou Tan;Pingping Zong;Yeheskel Bar-Ness

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Communication and Signal Processing Research (CCSPR), Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102, U.S.A. ...;Center for Communication and Signal Processing Research (CCSPR), Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102, U.S.A. ...;Center for Communication and Signal Processing Research (CCSPR), Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102, U.S.A. ...

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

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Abstract

In order to accommodate different types of traffic in future wirelesscommunications, it is necessary to consider a system, which can operatesatisfactorily at multiple transmission rates. Due to its capability to copewith the hostile frequency selective fading, that limits transmission rate,and its suitability to handle multi-rate data, multi-carrier CDMA (MC-CDMA)has recently drawn considerable attention as a suitable candidate forsupporting multimedia services in wireless communications. Multi-rate accessschemes where users are able to transmit at different data rates on MC-CDMAsystems are presented in this paper. Four multi-rate access schemes: uncodedfixed spreading length (UFSL), coded fixed spreading length (CFSL), multi-codefixed spreading length (MFSL) and variable spreading length (VSL) schemes areproposed. With these schemes, different traffic such as voice, video and highrate data can be transmitted seamlessly through one MC-CDMA infrastructure.A chip-level minimum mean square error combining (MMSEC) technique is employedfor joint energy combining and interference cancellation purpose. Theperformance of these schemes with MMSEC is compared by both theoreticalderivations and simulation results under frequency selective Rayleigh fadingchannels.