Radio Link Capacity Comparison between MC/DS-CDMA and MC-CDMA in Reverse Link Broadband Wireless Access

Shingo SUWA  Hiroyuki ATARASHI  Mamoru SAWAHASHI  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E86-A   No.7   pp.1645-1655
Publication Date: 2003/07/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Multi-dimensional Mobile Information Networks)
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Keyword: 
broadband packet wireless access,  reverse link,  multi-carrier/DS-CDMA,  multi-carrier CDMA,  

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Summary: 
This paper compares the radio link capacity between multi-carrier/DS-CDMA (MC/DS-CDMA) and multi-carrier CDMA (MC-CDMA) for reverse-link broadband packet wireless access taking into consideration: the asynchronous signal reception at the receiver; the path timing or symbol timing detection of all major subject factors; and the channel estimation error. Simulation results show that although the influence of the asynchronous signal reception on the packet error rate (PER) performance in MC-CDMA is slight, the degradation caused by the channel estimation error in MC-CDMA is severe compared to that caused by the path timing detection error in MC/DS-CDMA. Consequently, the required average received signal energy per bit-to-background noise spectrum density ratio (Eb/N0) at the average PER of 10-2 in MC/DS-CDMA is reduced by approximately 4.5 dB compared to that in MC-CDMA assuming a 12-path exponential decayed Rayleigh fading channel. Furthermore, the number of accommodated users in MC/DS-CDMA is 2.5 fold greater than that in MC-CDMA employing two-branch antenna diversity reception. Therefore, we conclude that MC/DS-CDMA is more appropriate than MC-CDMA for the reverse link broadband packet wireless access, and that it has advantageous features such as an inherently much lower peak-to-average power ratio compared to MC-CDMA, which accompanies a high peak-to-average power ratio causing an increase in the back-off of the power amplifier.