Performance of Haar wavelet based scale-code division multiple access (HW/S-CDMA) using decorrelating multi-user detector

Recently, we have proposed a new multi-rate/multi-media system called wavelet based scale-code division multiple access (W/S-CDMA) that depends on the code, time and scale orthogonality introduced by pseudo-noise (PN) sequences, and wavelets. Wavelets are used as an orthogonal set of symbols for signaling, and their orthogonality is exploited over scale and time. In this system, the channel is divided into different scales, and each scale into time slots. In addition, the PN sequences are used in each scale to accommodate multiple users. In other words, each user encodes its successive information symbols with time-shifted replicas of the same basic wavelet in a specific scale and spreads its scaled and translated wavelets with its PN sequence. The finer the scale used, more symbols are transmitted. In this paper, we analyze the performance of Haar wavelet based S-CDMA (HW/S-CDMA) over a synchronous additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel using a decorrelating multi-user detector. Results reveal that HW/SCDMA holds promise since the users of HW/S-CDMA can achieve variable and higher data rates than those of direct sequence (DS)-CDMA for a similar bit error rate performance when real-valued PN sequences are used. However, HW/S-CDMA achieves better performance than DS-CDMA when complex-valued PN sequences are used. In addition, for all rates the same performance is achieved in HW/S-CDMA and the multi-user detector has no processing delay for different rates and has the same features as the standard decorrelating detector. Because of the reuse capability introduced by the scales, HW/SCDMA is also capable of employing many available PN sequences from the optimal PN sequence families with limited number of sequences such as Kasami, Bent, etc. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.