Performance of frequency-hopping multicarrier CDMA in Rayleigh fading

Author

Elkashlan, Maged ; Leung, Cyril

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

341

Abstract

A new transmission scheme, frequency hopping multicarrier code division multiple access (FH-MC-CDMA), is proposed and investigated. This scheme can be compatible with existing narrowband second-generation frequency hopping and third-generation wideband CDMA systems. Two receiver combining techniques, namely equal-gain-combining and maximum-ratio-combining, are considered. An analysis of the downlink bit error rate in slow frequency-selective Rayleigh fading is provided. Two frequency-hopping (FH) schemes, namely random and coordinated FH are used. The performance improvement of the FH-MC-CDMA system over conventional frequency hopping is demonstrated, with a capacity gain approaching that of MC-CDMA but using a much lower number of subcarriers.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Rayleigh channels; code division multiple access; diversity reception; frequency hop communication; mobile radio; FH-CDMA; MC-CDMA; Rayleigh fading; coordinated frequency-hopping; equal-gain-combining; frequency hopping multicarrier code division multiple access; frequency-hopping multicarrier CDMA; frequency-selective fading; maximum-ratio-combining; random frequency-hopping; receiver combining techniques; Downlink; Frequency conversion; Frequency domain analysis; Intersymbol interference; Modulation coding; Multiaccess communication; Multicarrier code division multiple access; Narrowband; Rayleigh channels; Spread spectrum communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2002. Proceedings. VTC 2002-Fall. 2002 IEEE 56th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7467-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2002.1040361

Filename

1040361