Title
Spreading Code Design of Adaptive Non-Contiguous SOFDM for Dynamic Spectrum Access
Abstract
In a dynamic spectrum access (DSA) network, multi-carrier-based cognitive radio transceivers need to deactivate some of their subcarriers to avoid interference to primary users. In a mobile environment, the spread orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (SOFDM) system has demonstrated excellent performance in multipath fading channels, outperforming the traditional OFDM system due to the diversity gain. The traditional SOFDM uses Hadamard-Walsh code as the spreading code set, in which case, when deactivating subcarriers, orthogonality among different spreading codes will be lost, leading to poor bit error ratio (BER) performance. The performance of the SOFDM system can be improved by using adaptive spreading code adjustment to compensate for the loss of orthogonality. Because Hadamard-Walsh codes only exist for certain code length, in many cases, the SOFDM system based on Hadamard-Walsh code set needs to deactivate more subcarriers. Otherwise, loss of orthogonality cannot be eliminated. Instead, it can only be minimized. Moreover, deactivating more subcarriers will force the system to reduce the data rate. By treating the system as subsystems, we can generate binary orthogonal code set based on Hadamard-Walsh code to maintain the data rate. On the other hand, if the spreading code is not limited to be binary, orthogonal carrier interferometry (CI) codes exist for code length of any integer. Hence, by applying non-contiguous SOFDM (NC-SOFDM) with CI code to DSA, the loss of orthogonality among spreading codes caused by deactivating subcarriers can be eliminated. In this paper, we propose two novel spread coding schemes for NC-SOFDM for cognitive radio in a DSA network. The new spreading code sets help the system to maintain the same data rate as that of the traditional OFDM and improve the performance by exploiting the diversity gain and eliminating the orthogonality loss. The NC-SOFDM with the proposed spreading code outperforms the traditional NC-OFDM and the ad- - aptive NC-SOFDM with Hadamard-Walsh code.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/JSTSP.2010.2055538
J. Sel. Topics Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
hadamard codes,diversity reception,hadamard-walsh code,cognitive radio,orthogonal codes,fading channels,ofdm modulation,adaptive noncontiguous sofdm,cognitive radio (cr),carrier interferometry (ci),multicarrier-based cognitive radio transceivers,multipath channels,diversity gain,binary orthogonal code set,dynamic spectrum access (dsa),orthogonal carrier interferometry codes,spread spectrum communication,spread orthogonal frequency- division multiplexing (sofdm),mobile radio,radiowave interferometry,spreading code design,dynamic spectrum access network,multipath fading channels,binary codes,bit error ratio performance,error statistics,spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system,subcarrier multiplexing,network coding,interference,transceivers,error correction code,bit error ratio,fading,bit error rate,frequency division multiplexing,error correction,ofdm
Diversity gain,Mathematical optimization,Telecommunications,Computer science,Fading,Binary code,Frequency-division multiplexing,Algorithm,Error detection and correction,Carrier interferometry,Multiplexing,Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
1
1932-4553
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.41
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
X. Li140.41
B. Wang240.41
V. Chakarvarthy340.41
Zhiqiang Wu413417.56