5th International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems

Research Article

Performance of Cooperative CDMA with Successive Interference Cancellation

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769111,
        author={Indu Shakya and Falah H. Ali and Elias Stipidis},
        title={Performance of Cooperative CDMA with Successive Interference Cancellation},
        proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={Cooperative Diversity CDMA Interference Cancellation},
        doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769111}
    }
    
  • Indu Shakya
    Falah H. Ali
    Elias Stipidis
    Year: 2010
    Performance of Cooperative CDMA with Successive Interference Cancellation
    BROADNETS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769111
Indu Shakya1,*, Falah H. Ali1,*, Elias Stipidis1,*
  • 1: Communications Research Group Department of Engineering and Design University of Sussex Brighton,UK
*Contact email: i.l.shakya@sussex.ac.uk, F.H.Ali@sussex.ac.uk, E.Stipidis@sussex.ac.uk

Abstract

We investigate the BER and achievable rate of user cooperation schemes in practical uplink CDMA channels with multiple access interference (MAI). It is shown that when the system loading increases, cooperation alone becomes less effective if simple matched filters (MF) followed by combining from each partners’ signals are employed for obtaining decision variables. By performing successive interference cancellation (SIC) for each received signals from the partners and then using the maximum ratio combining technique, the diversity gain and hence the uplink capacity is enhanced. We further analyse the output decision variable signals and also provide a simplified bound on achievable rate based on Gaussian Approximation of MAI signals. Illustrative simulation results are given, which confirm that the proposed scheme using SIC achieves much improved diversity and error performance under high system loading and nearfar conditions.