Intersymbol interference resilient interleaving architecture for multi‐stream interleaved frequency division multiple access system

Abstract

A multi-stream cyclic interleaving architecture for an interleaved frequency division multiple access (IFDMA) system is proposed. The proposed scheme exploits the full benefits of maximal length sequence (m-sequence), in contrast to single data stream transmission scheme proposed in earlier works, thereby allowing simultaneous transmission of multiple data streams by each user. The cyclic spreading allows the separation of multiple data streams for each user in addition to intersymbol interference (ISI) minimization. The assignment of orthogonal subcarriers to each user compensates multiuser interference (MUI). The increase in the number of data stream transmission improves the data rate of the system. The proposed scheme employs maximal ratio combining (MRC) to maximize the instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the multipath signal. The performances of the proposed interleaving scheme are compared with the minimum mean square error frequency domain equalization (MMSE-FDE)-based conventional interleaving scheme. Despite the simultaneous transmission of multiple data streams, the proposed scheme retains the performance of single data stream transmission.