This paper proposes a bandwidth-e cient fading-resistant transmission scheme which implements transmitter diversity using L antennas at the base station. When the antennas are spaced su ciently far apart, the transmission from each antenna undergoes a di erent degree of fading. These transmissions are coordinated to mitigate the e ects of Rayleigh fading and the mobile receiver can recover the entire L-dimensional transmitted vector signal as long as the signal energy of at least one coordinate is large enough. L-dimensional fading-resistant signal constellations are generated by maximizing a gure of merit for the Rayleigh fading channel. This scheme o ers a signi cant performance improvement over a conventional single-antenna BPSK scheme when coding is ine ective due to slow fading.

Abstracf-We propose a multicarrier orthogonal CDMA signaling scheme for a multiple-access communication system, such as the reverse channel of a cellular network, as an alternative to the multi-user interference cancellation approach. The average variance of cross-correlations between sequences is used as a measure for sequence design. We search for sets of sequences that minimize the probability of symbol detection error, given that there is imperfect synchronization among the signals, that is, the signals are quasi-synchronous. Orthogonal sequences based on the Sylvester-type Hadamard matrices (Walsh functions) are shown to provide a significant improvement over the case where a Hadamard (orthogonal) matrix is chosen at random. Computer searches suggest that this set of codes is optimal with respect to the above measure. The issue of chip pulse shaping is investigated. Optimal pulses designed to minimize multiple-access interference in quasi-synchronous systems are obtained for various bandwidths and are shown to provide a large improvement over the raised cosine pulses. A multicarrier signaling scheme is introduced in order to reduce chip level synchronization offsets between the users.

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