Inter-carrier interference self-cancellation in synchronous downlink MC-CDMA system
Ruolin Zhou (Author), Xue Li (Author), Vasu Chakravarthy (Author), Bin Wang (Author), Zhiqiang Wu (Author)
MC-CDMA (multiple carrier code division multiple access) has been considered a strong candidate for cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access network, due to its high spectral efficiency, easy implementation and the capability of operating over non-contiguous frequency bands. However, like other multi-carrier transmission technologies such as OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing), the orthogonality among subcarriers in MC-CDMA system is lost in a mobile environment, leading to inter-carrier interference (ICI) and performance degradation. In this paper, we apply the ICI self-cancellation scheme previously proposed for OFDM system to orthogonal MC-CDMA system with Hadamard-Walsh codes to diminish ICI and improve BER performance. We show that the ICI self-cancellation scheme for MC-CDMA is equivalent to employing a subset of the Hadamard code matrix. As a direct result, the proposed ICI self cancellation method does not increase the complexity at both transmitter and receiver. To compensate for the network capacity (in terms of the number of users) loss in the proposed ICI self-cancellation method, a second set of orthogonal Hadamard-Walsh codes on the quadrature subcarriers are introduced. The proposed system offers significant BER performance gain than original MC-CDMA with the presence of ICI and same network capacity when BPSK modulation is employed. Simulation results over multi-path fading channel confirm the effectiveness of the proposed scheme, without increasing any complexity
Chapter, 2009