Design of pseudonoise sequences with good odd and even correlation properties for DS/CDMA

Proposes and investigates a method for designing pseudonoise (PN) sequences having both good odd and even correlation properties, which are important for acquisition and demodulation in spread spectrum (SS) communications. Odd correlation properties of PN sequences should be designed as well as their even or periodic correlation properties so that the cochannel interference can be reduced as small as possible. Polyphase PN sequences with such good correlation properties can be derived from biphase PN sequences with a good aperiodic correlation property under a certain condition. Absolute values of odd and even correlation functions of these sequences are equal at each shift. The authors evaluated their peak correlations properties and bit error rate performance. Numerical evaluations show that the derived polyphase sequences have lower peaks of correlations and lower bit error rate than their original sequences. Furthermore, the authors defined the generalized odd correlation function for polyphase SS systems, and derived a way to improve the generalized odd correlation properties