Internally coded multicarrier frequency-hopping CDMA communication system and its performance analysis

A new internally coded scheme that combines frequency hopping (FH) and multicarrier (MC) code division multiple access (CDMA) techniques using a super-orthogonal encoder is proposed. In this method, the total bandwidth is partitioned into Ns₂ disjoint bands and each band is also segmented into Ns₁ subbands. On the basis of a super-orthogonal encoder output and a pseudorandom sequence, one of the Ns₁ bands is selected. The data bit is then transmitted in the band in the form of the multicarrier FH (MC-FH) CDMA scheme, that is, Ns₂ carriers are transmitted in the Ns₂ subbands of the selected band. At the receiver, both hard and soft detectors are used. The performance of the proposed method in the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and fading channels is evaluated. The results indicate that the proposed method outperforms the previously presented uncoded and coded MC-FH-CDMA systems, where the data are transmitted over the whole bandwidth, keeping the same bandwidth (spectral efficiency). Further, in the new method, the carriers hop in part of the total bandwidth, and hence coherent detection is more feasible.