CA-CDMA: channel-adapted CDMA for MAI/ISI-free burst transmission

This paper proposes a precoding technique for the complete elimination of both multiple-access interference and intersymbol interference in the uplink of a code-division multiple-access system based on burst transmission, with reduction of the minimum mean-square error joint detector to a simple filter matched to the total impulse responses. If the received power is fixed, this system minimizes the variance of the symbol estimation error. An infinity of solutions exists to orthogonalize the system. Two objectives are added: a possible progression in the number of users and a minimization of the average emitted power. In an ideal progressive system, users can enter or leave the system easily without recomputing the codes of the other users. The minimization of the emitted power is a complex optimization problem. An approximate solution is proposed. It is shown that the system introduced in this paper outperforms burst systems using a conventional set of codes.