Performance of a wireless MC-CDMA system with an antenna array in a fading channel: reverse link

Abstract

We propose a multicarrier code-division multiple-access (MC-CDMA) system employing an antenna array at the base station, and analyze the performance of the MC-CDMA system in a fading channel. An optimal beamformer not requiring explicit direction of arrival estimation or training signals is derived for the MC-CDMA system in the reverse link, and is shown to reduce interferences from other users significantly, thus increasing the system's user capacity. Also, it is shown that the MC-CDMA approach can achieve better performance than the direct-sequence CDMA approach when both approaches employ the code filtering technique for the antenna array.