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Multi-rate group-orthogonal OFDMA-CDMA for broadband mobile transmission

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In this work, the problem of multi-rate Multi-Carrier (MC) Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) wireless transmission is addressed. In particular, we investigated the possibility of exploiting subcarrier grouping, already considered in literature for constant bit-rate MC-CDMA, in order to reduce mutual interference among different rate users and to allow the use of theoretically-optimum Maximum-Likelihood Multi-User Detection (ML-MUD) with affordable computational burden. We propose a multi-code Group Orthogonal (GO) OFDMA-CDMA system where the available subcarriers are subdivided into fixed-cardinality orthogonal subcarrier groups. The user’s data stream is selectively multiplexed into a variable number of substreams, which depends on the data-rate. Then, these substreams are transmitted over an orthogonal subcarrier group, univocally assigned to a user rate class. Experimental results obtained by adopting linear multi-user detection show that the proposed GO-OFDMA-CDMA outperforms state-of-the-art Variable Spreading Length (VSL) and multi-code MC-CDMA as far as higher data rate users are concerned. On the other hand, BER performance of lowest-rate users is slightly worse. Orthogonal subcarrier grouping allows to greatly increasing BER performance when using ML-MUD operated over small subcarrier groups. In such a case, the tradeoff to be managed is between achievable performance and computational complexity.

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    Claudio Sacchi & Massimiliano Panizza

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Part of this work has been published in the Proceedings of 2009 IEEE Multiple Access Communications (MACOM 2009), workshop held in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2009 Conference (Dresden, June 14–19, 2009).

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Sacchi, C., Panizza, M. Multi-rate group-orthogonal OFDMA-CDMA for broadband mobile transmission. Telecommun Syst 52, 15–29 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-011-9441-4

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