On Jamming Capacity of General Multiuser CDMA Systems

The capacity of a general multiuser CDMA jamming channel is analyzed when the receiver has or lacks jammer state information. Analyses are carried out for noncooperative and cooperative users in uplink and downlink static and Nakagami fading channels. The results are applied to a versatile multiple access channel model introduced in Nikjah and Beaulieu (2006). The model is based on the time-bandwidth dimensionality and is considered for the user capacity analysis of a variety of multiuser spread spectrum systems contaminated by jamming. It is found that the jammer should spread its energy evenly over all degrees of freedom in order to minimize the average capacity. Also, the capacity behavior appears to be dominated more by knowledge of jammer state information than by the effects of fading. The capacity of downlink channels in cooperative schemes is found to be more sensitive to changes in fading severity, compared with the capacity of other kinds of channels.