Peak Power Reduction for MC-CDMA Using Cluster Assigned Code Selection

Takeo FUJII  Masao NAKAGAWA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E86-B   No.9   pp.2637-2647
Publication Date: 2003/09/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Wireless Communication Technology
Keyword: 
MC-CDMA,  peak power problem,  code selection,  code detection error recovering,  

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Summary: 
MC-CDMA has attracted significant attention as a downlink communication method for fourth generation mobile communication systems. However, MC-CDMA has a peak power problem, similarly to other nonspread multicarrier systems. In this paper, we propose a novel peak power reduction technique for MC-CDMA using code selection at the transmitter. In the proposed system, the transmitter selects the code shift pattern from plural pre-assigned code shift patterns in each cluster to minimize the output peak power of downlink signals. The proposed technique can achieve the blind code detection of transmitting codes at the receiver. However, the detection performance degrades if the number of users is extremely large or extremely small. Therefore, in this paper, a code detection error recovery technique is also considered.