Rotated Walsh-Hadamard spreading with robust channel estimation for a coded MC-CDMA system

  • Authors:
  • Ronald Raulefs;Armin Dammann;Stephan Sand;Stefan Kaiser;Gunther Auer

  • Affiliations:
  • Research Group for Mobile Radio Transmission, Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany;Research Group for Mobile Radio Transmission, Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany;Research Group for Mobile Radio Transmission, Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany;Research Group for Mobile Radio Transmission, Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany;NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on innovative signal transmission and detection techniques for next generation cellular CDMA systems
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We investigate rotated Walsh-Hadamard spreading matrices for a broadband MC-CDMA system with robust channel estimation in the synchronous downlink. The similarities between rotated spreading and signal space diversity are outlined. In a multiuser MC-CDMA system, possible performance improvements are based on the chosen detector, the channel code, and its Hamming distance. By applying rotated spreading in comparison to a standard Walsh-Hadamard spreading code, a higher throughput can be achieved. As combining the channel code and the spreading code forms a concatenated code, the overall minimum Hamming distance of the concatenated code increases. This asymptotically results in an improvement of the bit error rate for high signal-to-noise ratio. Higher convolutional channel code rates are mostly generated by puncturing good low-rate channel codes. The overall Hamming distance decreases significantly for the punctured channel codes. Higher channel code rates are favorable for MC-CDMA, as MC-CDMA utilizes diversity more efficiently compared to pure OFDMA. The application of rotated spreading in an MC-CDMA system allows exploiting diversity even further.We demonstrate that the rotated spreading gain is still present for a robust pilot-aided channel estimator. In a well-designed system, rotated spreading extends the performance by using a maximum likelihood detector with robust channel estimation at the receiver by about 1 dB.