Multiple-Access Performance Analysis of Combined Time-Hopping and Spread-Time CDMA System in the Presence of Narrowband Interference

We consider a combined time-hopping (TH) and spread-time (ST) multiple-access technique that uses an internal code. In this method, the duration of each bit is divided into Ns frames. The outputs of the encoder and a pseudorandom (PN) sequence specify the number of the frame in which the data bit is transmitted in ST code-division multiple-access (ST-CDMA) form using the second PN sequence. We consider the correlator receiver, followed by the channel decoder. We obtain the performance of the combined method in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and fading channels in the presence of multiple-access interference (MAI) and narrowband interference (NBI). We also consider the conventional ST-CDMA system and compare its performance with our method. The results indicate that the proposed method has much better performance while it has the same bandwidth and spectral efficiency as the conventional ST-CDMA system. In the new method, like in the conventional ST-CDMA system, an external error-correcting code can be applied for further performance enhancement.