Performance of multi-processing gain QS-CDMA over AWGN and Rayleigh fading channels

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the bit error rate performance of multi-processing gain quasi-synchronous (QS) code division multiple access (CDMA). Analysis is carried out for deterministic spreading sequences over additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and frequency selective slowly Rayleigh fading channels. We also find the bit error rate performance of multi-processing gain QS-CDMA for random spreading sequences and compare to that of deterministic spreading sequences. Results show that deterministic Gold codes outperform random codes considerably and perform differently for different rates while random codes give almost the same performance for all rates. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.