Efficient use of the spectrum is an essential problem in creating any multi-user cellular mobile system. The bandwidth requirements of the future 4G systems far exceed what the existing traditional setup can provide. A more creative utilization of the available bandwidth is more important now than ever before.
Improved receiver design that utilizes the frequency and code diversity of the MC-CDMA schemes is one way of increasing the number of users supported at very high bitrates. We discuss the MC-CDMA system operating over a frequency selective, slowly fading channel. We study in detail multiuser Parallel Interference Cancellation detectors employing the MRC and MMSE detectors. Various configurations of the PIC are studied and simulated to evaluate and understand the comparative advantages and disadvantages.
In this thesis we offer a review of the literature available on MC-CDMA and CI/MC-CDMA systems. We study the performance of the MRC-PIC-MMSE system both semi-analytically and by computer simulations. By means of computer simulations, we also compare the advantages of using the Carrier Interferometry codes over the Walsh Hadammard codes under various system configurations.