1 AIT Asian Institute of Technology

Performance investigation of mc-CDMA using space-time codes over slow frequency- selective fading channels

AuthorMaitree Sanguanchaiyakit
Call NumberAIT Thesis no.TC-00-02
Subject(s)Code division multiple access

NoteA thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology
PublisherAsian Institute of Technology
Series StatementThesis ; no. TC-00-02
AbstractSpace-Time Code Modulation (STCM) was proposed by (Tarokh et al., 1998) to improve the performance of wireless systems with high data rate transmission. The outage capacity is the basis to construct the codes rather than Shannon's capacity. For a single user, STCM has shown the favorable properties such as robustness to channel fading over uncoded or even trellis coded modulation (TCM). Multi-carrier Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) was proposed to overcome the deficiencies in the performance of conventional CDMA over frequencyselective fading channel. MC-CDMA employs a multi-carrier modulation technique to spread the information in frequency domain. The subcarriers are orthogonal. The transmitted signals in sub-carriers undergo flat fading. \ The performance of MC-CDMA using STCM as a channel coding scheme is investigated here over the slow frequency-selective fading channel. From the simulation results, it can be seen that the performance degrades in the case of multiple users. The difference between MC-CDMA using STCM and uncoded case, a TCM schemes is that we may not be able to use a proper combining technique to counteract channel fading. This is due to the fact that the signal from each antenna is different. Therefore, multiuser detection employing parallel interference cancellation (PIC) is utilized and investigated to improve the performance of the proposed system.
Year2000
Corresponding Series Added EntryAsian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. TC-00-02
TypeThesis
SchoolSchool of Engineering and Technology (SET)
DepartmentDepartment of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT)
Academic Program/FoSTelecommunications (TC)
Chairperson(s)Rajatheva, RM.AP. ;
Examination Committee(s)Makelainen, Kimmo;Erke, Tapio;
Scholarship Donor(s)Telephone Organization of Thailand Phase II;
DegreeThesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2000


Usage Metrics
View Detail0
Read PDF0
Download PDF0