A multicarrier CDMA communication system with adaptive transmission power allocation

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Abstract

We propose a multicarrier code-division multiple-access (MC-CDMA) system with adaptive transmission power allocation. The transmission power is allocated over M' strongest subcarriers among M available ones. Using only M' subcarriers of which channel gains are relatively large indicates that the transmission power to maintain the desired received signal strength can be reduced, but decreasing M' also lead to a reduction of effective spreading gain to mitigate the multiple access interference. We analyze the trade-off between M' and effective spreading gain, and find the optimal M' that minimizes the average bit error rate (BER). Our results show that the bit error rate (BER) can be significantly reduced if M' is properly chosen, and transmit signals over only the strongest subcarrier (M'=1) is the best especially for low SNR regions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFrontiers in Computer Education
Pages769-775
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2011 International Conference on Frontiers in Computer Education, ICFCE 2011 - Macao, China
Duration: 1 Dec 20112 Dec 2011

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent and Soft Computing
Volume133 AISC
ISSN (Print)1867-5662

Conference

Conference2011 International Conference on Frontiers in Computer Education, ICFCE 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityMacao
Period1/12/112/12/11

Keywords

  • adaptive
  • CDMA
  • multicarrier

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