Abstract

The multicarrier code division multiple access (MCCDMA) is a strong candidate for the future wireless mobile communication systems put forth by service quality and system capacity. In order to exploit the maximum possible channel diversity and desirable correlation properties, the modification of MCCDMA system is addressed here to pave the way to remove the multiple access interference (MAI) effect and to increase the spectral efficiency (SE) due to the possible integration of space-time block coding (STBC) and multi input multi output (MIMO) techniques with two-dimensional orthogonal complete complementary (OCC) codes. The impact on modifications in the MCCDMA system is studied. Due to frequency selective fading and multipath effects, MCCDMA suffers from MAI due to loss of orthogonality among the users. In this paper, the constellation movement scheme is proposed to break the interference limitation in order to increase the SE and system capacity. In this scheme, the constellation of one of the users is moved adaptively relative to the other by an optimal angle based on quantized estimation to counteract MAI, caused by multipath effects without varying the transmit power in order to satisfy minimum distance threshold at the detectors. The simulation result shows that this modified MCCDMA system and proposed constellation movement scheme achieves significant performance improvement in terms of bit error rate (BER) and SE compared to conventional MCCDMA systems using unitary spreading codes. It also shows that the proposed scheme combats MAI against frequency selective fading and multipath effects and achieves a significant improvement in user capacity as the number of users increased.

Key words: Multicarrier code division multiple access (MCCDMA), multiple access interference (MAI), orthogonal complete complementary (OCC) codes, channel states, adaptive constellations.