Fractional-Delay-Resilient Receiver Design for Interference-Free MC-CDMA Communications Based on Complete Complementary Codes

Zilong Liu, Yong Liang Guan, Hsiao-Hwa Chen
2015 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications  
Complete complementary codes (CCC) refer to a set of two-dimensional matrices which have zero non-trivial aperiodic auto-and cross-correlation sums. A modern application of CCC is in interference-free multicarrier code-division multiple-access (MC-CDMA) communications. In this paper, we first show that in asynchronous "fractional-delay" uplink channels, CCC-MC-CDMA systems suffer from orthogonality loss which may lead to huge interference increase when a conventional correlator based receiver
more » ... deployed. Then, by exploiting the correlation properties of CCC, we present a fractional-delay-resilient receiver which is comprised of a chip-spaced correlating array. Analysis and simulations validate the interference-free achievability of the proposed CSCA receiver in strong interference scenarios. Index Terms Complete Complementary Codes (CCC), Multi-Carrier CDMA (MC-CDMA), Interference-Free Performance, Fractional-Delay-Resilient.
doi:10.1109/twc.2014.2365467 fatcat:3bxnzmurynhyncjjtaruoisd7m