Multicarrier DS/SFH-CDMA Systems

Abstract—In this paper, multicarrier direct-sequence/slow-fre-quency-hopping (MC DS/SFH) code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems are proposed, in which multiple carriers are modulated by the same DS waveform and hopped in frequency according to a random hopping pattern. The receiver dehops the received signal with the same pattern, provides RAKE receivers for each carrier, and combines the outputs with a maximal ratio combiner (MRC). The performance of the proposed system is investigated over a frequency-selective Rayleigh-fading channel and compared to that of the MC DS-CDMA systems. It is shown that for the same diversity order, the MC DS/SFH-CDMA systems are superior in reducing multiple-access interference (MAI) while preserving the good capability of narrow-band interference suppression, when the system parameters are selected properly. Index Terms—Code-division multiple access (CDMA), multicar-rier (MC) systems, narrow-band interference suppression. I