In this letter, new results on the BER performance of multitone DS-CDMA systems for transmissions over Nakagami-m fading channels with exponentially decaying multipath intensity profile are presented. The results show that, in viewpoint of the BER performance, there is a critical relation between the number of resolvable paths and the effect of the rate of average power decay.

In this paper, downlink performance of multicarrier CDMA (MC-CDMA) systems under correlated fading channels is analytically investigated. Under code hopping, a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) and bit error rate (BER) performance are derived in multi-cell environments. In addition, specific conditions to validate the commonly used Gaussian approximation of an interference plus noise distribution in MC-CDMA systems are discussed. It is proved that the approximation is adequate in case of low correlation between subcarriers and a large spreading factor (SF). The proposition is confirmed through comparison between analytical and simulation results.

Iterative multiuser detection and space-time coding are two promising techniques to increase the capacity and performance of coded multiuser systems in wireless channels. In this paper, a low-complexity iterative multiuser receiver is proposed using combined group multiuser detection and interference cancellation for space-time block coded MC-CDMA system. Turbo code is used for outer channel coding with log-MAP decoding. In each group, consisting of smaller number of users, multiuser likelihood ratios can be computed by employing MAP-based approach by taking into account of all possible transmitted symbols within each STBC time slot for these users. Moreover, once decoding information of all users are available after the first iteration, soft interference cancellation can be used instead of groupwise MAP-based detection for lower complexity, without sacrificing the performance significantly. Simulation results are presented in a Rayleigh multipath fading environment. The proposed receiver offers performance very close to that of single user system within a few iterations of joint detection and decoding.

In this letter, Multicarrier Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) technique combined with Space Time Block Code (STBC) is analyzed in the case of two transmit antennas. A multicarrier transmit diversity scheme with antenna selection is proposed. The transmission power is allocated onto the antenna which has larger channel gain instead of the two antennas uniformly. Simulation results show that the new scheme has considerable performance gain compared to the Alamouti's scheme.

The bit error rate (BER) for an uplink multicell multicarrier code-division multiple-access (MC-CDMA) system in Nakagami-m fading channels is derived and expressed in the form of a single integral. The result is obtained without the approximation for the ratio of the interference power from other-cell to the power from the user-of-interest. Numerical results demonstrate the impacts of other-cell interference and power control errors on the BER.

In this paper, we evaluate the performance of pilot channel-aided channel estimation for multicarrier direct-sequence (DS) code division multiple access (CDMA) communication system as proposed by Kondo and Milstein . We consider a multicarrier DS-CDMA system with different number of pilot and data channels. We investigate the optimum number of pilot channels for various coherence bandwidths and different number of subchannels. Keeping the total transmit bandwidth fixed, an optimum number of total subchannels and pilot channels exists under specific channel environment and transmitted energy. As the number of pilot channels increases, more accurate channel estimation is possible but the number of data channels decreases resulting a smaller diversity gain. We show that there is a tradeoff between the number of pilot channels and data subchannels, thereby requiring differing numbers of optimum pilot channels according to channel conditions.

We investigated the suppression of multiuser interference in uplink multicarrier CDMA systems using the minimum mean squared error combining (MMSEC) method. In MMSEC, many pilot symbols are required to converge the weight vectors, and if we use just a few pilot symbols, the performance cannot be improved very much. We therefore developed a method for calculating weight vectors for MMSEC that uses just a few pilot symbols. The impulse responses of all users are first estimated using the pilot symbols in the time domain and modulated by a discrete Fourier transform. Next, the correlation matrices and correlation vectors are estimated from the impulse responses and the spreading codes of all users. Finally, the weight vectors that are obtained from the correlation matrices and correlation vectors are multiplied by the received signal to suppress the multiuser interference. The results of computer simulations indicated that the bit-error-ratio performance obtained using this method was better than that obtained when using the conventional fading compensation scheme or when using conventional MMSEC with the recursive least squares algorithm.

A space-time (ST) receiver is proposed for multiple access interference (MAI) and narrowband interference (NBI) suppression, and multipath diversity reception in wireless multi-carrier CDMA communications incorporating antenna arrays. The scheme involves three stages. First, an adaptive matched filter is attached to each finger at each antenna to combat the MAI. Second, an adaptive beamformer is constructed for each finger which provides effective reception of the signal of interest (SOI) and suppression of time-varying NBI. Finally, beamformer output data from different fingers are combined to capture the signal multipath components coherently. The proposed ST receiver is shown to perform reliably under strong interference, and outperform the ST MMSE receiver with pilot symbols aided channel estimation.

In this paper, we consider the subchannel detection problem in forward links for the multicarrier DS-CDMA system when some different subchannel allocation policies are used. An optimal subchannel decision algorithm is proposed based on the maximum-likelihood (ML) criterion. Theoretical analysis and simulation results are presented. Furthermore, we discuss the parameter selection problem on the length of the training sequences in the subchannel allocation scheme in [8],[12] by using the proposed ML detection algorithm. The results show that the subchannel allocation scheme in [8],[12] is feasible since only a few symbols overhead is required.

This paper compares the packet error rate (PER) performance of three access schemes, i.e., single-carrier (SC)/DS-CDMA, multi-carrier (MC)/DS-CDMA, and MC-CDMA assuming an 80-MHz bandwidth in order to achieve an optimum broadband packet wireless access scheme. In a broadband propagation channel, severe multipath interference degrades the accuracy of timing detection of multipath components (path search) and channel estimation required for coherent detection. Computer simulation results show that, in the reverse link, SC/DS-CDMA achieves better performance than MC/DS-CDMA because the pilot signal power in one sub-carrier required for path search and channel estimation decreases as the number of sub-carriers increases. The superiority of MC-CDMA to MC (SC)/DS-CDMA in the forward link is also demonstrated, because frequency diversity is effectively utilized in association with the mitigation of a much longer symbol duration than the delay spread in MC-CDMA, meanwhile a higher degree of multipath interference offsets the Rake time diversity in MC (SC)/DS-CDMA in a broadband multipath fading channel.