Title :
Overview of multicarrier CDMA
Author :
Hara, Shinsuke ; Prasad, Ramjee
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commun. Eng., Osaka Univ., Japan
fDate :
12/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors present an overview of new multiple access schemes based on a combination of code division and multicarrier techniques, such as multicarrier code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA), multicarrier direct sequence CDMA (multicarrier DS-CDMA), and multitone CDMA (MT-CDMA)
Keywords :
Rayleigh channels; access protocols; code division multiple access; coding errors; error statistics; fading; modulation; pseudonoise codes; radio links; spread spectrum communication; BER performance; MC-CDMA; MT-CDMA; code division multiple access; downlink bit error rate; frequency selective fading; multicarrier CDMA; multicarrier DS-CDMA; multicarrier code-division multiple access; multicarrier direct sequence CDMA; multicarrier modulation; multicarrier techniques; multitone CDMA; slow Rayleigh fading channel; spectral efficiency; Fading; Fast Fourier transforms; Frequency division multiplexing; Modulation coding; Multiaccess communication; OFDM modulation; Radio communication; Radio transmitters; Spread spectrum communication; Time division multiple access;
Journal_Title :
Communications Magazine, IEEE