Performance analysis of MC-CDMA systems employing maximal ratio combining and uniform linear antenna array

Author

Carvajal, Henry ; Orozco, Nathaly ; de Almeida, Celso

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. - DECOM, State Univ. of Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

17-20 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents exact analytical expressions to evaluate the mean symbol error rate (SER) and the mean bit error rate (BER) of Multicarrier Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) systems using a correlation receiver with maximal ratio combining (MRC) and uniform linear antenna array at the base station. The performance is evaluated considering additive white gaussian noise (AWGN), Rayleigh fading, multiple access interference (own cell interference) and co-cell interference. Simulations using the Monte Carlo method are carried out, which are compared with the analytical expressions. An asynchronous uplink case with independent fading at different subcarriers is considered and BPSK and M-QAM modulations are used.

Keywords

AWGN channels; Monte Carlo methods; Rayleigh channels; code division multiple access; diversity reception; error statistics; linear antenna arrays; quadrature amplitude modulation; radiofrequency interference; AWGN; BER; BPSK modulation; M-QAM modulation; MC-CDMA systems; MRC; Monte Carlo method; Rayleigh fading; SER; additive white gaussian noise; bit error rate; cell interference; co-cell interference; maximal ratio combining; mean symbol error rate; multicarrier code division multiple access; multiple interference interference; uniform linear antenna array; Antenna arrays; Arrays; Bit error rate; Fading; Interference; Modulation; Multicarrier code division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications Symposium (ITS), 2014 International

Conference_Location

Sao Paulo

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITS.2014.6948034

Filename

6948034