Performance analysis of an internally coded MC-FH-CDMA system

We consider an internally coded scheme for multicarrier frequency-hopping CDMA (MC-FH-CDMA) communication systems. In this method, the total bandwidth is partitioned into Ns₁ disjoint bands and each band is also segmented into Ns₂, subbands. Based on the super-orthogonal encoder output and a pseudorandom (PN) sequence, one of the Ns₁ bands is selected. Then, the data is transmitted in that band in the form of multicarrier frequency-hopping technique using BPSK modulation. At the receiver front end, we use soft detector, then we apply Viterbi decoding algorithm. We evaluate the performance of the proposed method. The results indicate that our method outperforms the previously presented uncoded and coded MC-FH-CDMA systems without requiring any extra bandwidth.