A turbo coded Discrete Wavelet Packet Transform DWPT based Multicarrier CDMA system has been proposed to enhance the bit error rate and complexity of the conventional MC-CDMA which based on Fast Fourier Transform FFT over different channel models. The decoding algorithm used maxlog-MAP algorithm. The computer simulation tests show that the BER of the coded DWPT based MC-CDMA has been improved by 4 dB compared with the coded FFT based MC-CDMA over Additive White Gaussian Noise AWGN and 4.5 dB over the multipath fading channel at of BER=10
General TermsMC-CDMA, Wavelet Transform, Turbo Coding
1.INTRODUCTIONRecently, the MC_CDMA technique based on the combination of conventional CDMA and OFDM technique has attracted great interest in both practical and theoretical studies of modern mobile communication because of its high spectral efficiency and high data transmission [1].This combination is a useful technique for high speed systems which has the property of variable data rates as well as provides reliable communication system [2].By using multi_carrier modulation, CDMA signal is spreaded over several carriers by which frequency diversity is achieved similar to path diversity in Rake receiver, but with lower complexity of equalization in the frequency domain [1].In OFDM based wavelet transform, the IFFT and FFT blocks are simply replaced by an Inverse Discrete Wavelet Transform IDWPT andThe conventional MC_CDMA is implemented by means of FFT operation. In its frequency spectrum, the main lobe does not concentrate energy effectively and side lobe attenuates slowly, the multi path fading and synchronization error will cause severe performance degradation due to inter channel interference ICI, intersymbol interference ISI and multi-access interference MAI. Moreover, the FFT MC_CDMA often restores to cyclic prefix CP to eliminate the ISI and maintain orthogonality between neighboring sub_carriers, which decreases the efficiency of spectrum utilization considerably in some communication scenarios.Due to the higher spectral containment between sub channels, wavelet based OFDM can be better in combating narrowband interference and its inherently more robust with respect to ICI than traditional Fourier filter.Without the CP, the data rate in wavelet systems can surpass those of Fourier implementations, one of its key motivating factors.So, the main and important difference between FFT and DWT based OFDM is that the wavelet based OFDM will not add a cyclic prefix to OFDM system [2]. This property makes the wavelet to combat with FFT for future system.One method suggested to improve the performance of a communication system is to use the channel coding. Channel coding refers to the class of signal transformations designed to improve communication performance by enabling the transmitted signals to better withstand the effects of various channel impairments, such as noise, interference, and fading. In this work, a parallel concatenated convolutional code of two convolutional codes are used as a channel coding scheme t...