Code Division Multiplexing Properties of the Odd-length Minimum-TSC Binary Signature Sets

Binary signature sets that exhibit minimum total-squared-correlation (TSC) were recently designed. In this article, we focus on such sets with signatures of odd length and we derive closed-form expressions for the signature cross-correlation matrix, its eigenvalues, and its inverse. Then, we derive analytic expressions for (i) the bit-error-rate (BER) upon decorrelating processing, (ii) the maximum achievable signal-to-interference-plus-noise (SINR) ratio upon minimum-mean-square-error (MMSE) filtering, and (iii) the total asymptotic efficiency of the system. We find that minimum-TSC binary sets with signature length of the form 4m+1, m=1,2,..., are in all respects superior to minimum-TSC binary sets with signature length of the form 4m-1 (the latter class includes the familiar Gold sets as a small proper subset). "4m+1" sets perform practically at the single-user-bound (SUB) after decorrelating or MMSE processing (not true for "4m-1" sets). The total asymptotic efficiency of "4m+1" sets is lower bounded by 2/e for any system user load. The corresponding lower bound for "4m-1" sets is zero.