Performance comparison of overlap FDE and sliding-window chip equalization for multi-code DS-CDMA in a frequency-selective fading channel

Tatsunori Obara, Kazuki Takeda, Kyesan Lee, Fumiyuki Adachi

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    Abstract

    Recently, overlap frequency-domain equalization (FDE) based on minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion which requires no guard interval (GI) insertion was proposed for signal transmission us-ing multi-code direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) in a frequency-selective fading channel. Another promising equalization technique is time-domain sliding-window chip equalization (SWCE). In this paper, the bit error rate (BER) performances achievable with overlap FDE and SWCE are compared. It is shown that, by extending the fast Fourier transform (FFT) block size, overlap FDE can achieve almost the same BER performance as SWCE with much less computational complex-ity than SWCE.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)750-757
    Number of pages8
    JournalIEICE Transactions on Communications
    VolumeE94-B
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2011 Mar

    Keywords

    • DS-CDMA
    • Overlap FDE
    • Sliding-window chip equalization (SWCE)

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Software
    • Computer Networks and Communications
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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