Abstract
This letter presents an analysis of asynchronous multicarrier code-division multiple-access (MC-CDMA) systems with a guard period (GP) in the form of a cyclic prefix over frequency-selective multipath fading channels, which results in closed-form bit-error rate performance. Furthermore, it confirms that the frequency diversity of MC-CDMA systems is identical to the path diversity. The analytical approach proposed here is extended to the case without a GP. The derived analytical results show that a GP is required for MC-CDMA systems in order to mitigate not only the effect of intersymbol interference and intercarrier interference, but also the desired signal power degradation.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 216-220 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Communications |
Volume | 54 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2006 Feb |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Paper approved by J. Wang, the Editor for Modulation, Detection, and Equalization of the IEEE Communications Society. Manuscript received April 14, 2003; revised January 11, 2004. This work was supported by the Basic Research Program of the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation under Grant R01-2002-000-00153-0(2002).
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering