Although there is a rich literature on Interleave Division Multiple Access (IDMA) communication systems, current results are mainly restricted to the Additive White Gaussian Noise (A WGN) and ignored the impulsive noise effects (Non-Gaussian noise) which might be dominant in many practical applications. Aiming to fill this research gap, this paper investigates the performance of both Single Carrier IDMA (SC-IDMA) and Multi Carrier IDMA (MC-IDMA) systems over non-Gaussian impulsive noise channel. Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) has been widely used in analyzing the performance of communication systems under impulsive noise. The resultsshow that the MC-IDMA is better than SC-IDMA by about 4 dB at bit error rate equal t010-4 under the same parameters. The performance analysis for both systems shows that the SC-IDMA is more sensitive than MC IDMA to the impulsive noise with increasing the impulsive noise parameters and the number of users in the system.
I. INTRODUCTIONImpulsive noise is the common impairment in communication systems, which is caused by many different sources, such as car ignitions, high voltage cables, hair dryers, vacuums cleaner and microwave ovens, thus the impulsive noise models were analyzed depending on different several sources as literature in last twenty years [1]- [3]. It is complicated to accurately model impulsive noise interference, but a model of impulsive noise from any sources has two common properties, first, the time arrival of an impulsive noise is unpredictable, but it arrives with probability, second, the amplitude of impulsive noise is much higher than the background noise and it has short period. The Gaussian noise model is not appropriate due to in-frequent and high level noise spikes. Hence, the noise distribution for communication systems should be discussed as non-Gaussian noise. Many communication systems have been studied over impulsive noise channel as given in [4], [5]. There are many non Gaussian channel models such as Middleton class-A model [5], Laplace channel model [6], a-stable channel model [7], [8], and GMM [9]. Recently, SC-IDMA is regarded as a special form of SC-Code Division Multiple Access (SC-CDMA) by treating interleaving index sequence as multiple access codes. In general, SC-IDMA outperforms conventional SC-CDMA in terms of power and bandwidth. SC-IDMA inherits many advantages from SC-CDMA, in particular, diversity against fading and mitigation of the user interference problem [10]-[12]. The key principle of SC-IDMA system is that the chip level interleavers should be different for different users. The benefits of SC-IDMA are the following [13], [14]: l. Random coding where different users have unique random signatures. 2. Time diversity, where chip interleaving is capable of increasing the achievable time diversity in time selective channels. 3. Joint coding and spreading design, which is capable of improving the attainable bandwidth efficiency and error resilience.Recently, the MC version of IDMA was proposed in [15] by combining SC-IDMA with orthogonal ...