Non-Coherent Code Acquisition in the Multiple Transmit/Multiple Receive Antenna Aided Single- and Multi-Carrier DS-CDMA Downlink

We analyse the characteristics of the Non-Coherent (NC) Multiple Transmit/Multiple Receive (MTMR) antenna aided Multi-Carrier (MC) DS-CDMA downlink employing a serial search based acquisition scheme, when communicating over spatially uncorrelated Rayleigh channels. The associated Mean Acquisition Time (MAT) performance trends are characterised as a function of both the number of antennas and that of the number of subcarriers. It is shown that the employment of both multiple transmit antennas and multiple subcarriers is typically detrimental in terms of the achievable NC acquisition performance, while that obtained by exploiting multiple receive antennas is always beneficial, regardless whether single-path or multi-path scenarios are considered. Based on our results justified by information theoretic considerations, our acquisition design guidelines are applicable to diverse NC MTMR antenna aided scenarios.

[1]  A. Bletsas,et al.  A simple distributed method for relay selection in cooperative diversity wireless networks, based on reciprocity and channel measurements , 2005, 2005 IEEE 61st Vehicular Technology Conference.

[2]  Jia-Chin Lin.  Differentially coherent PN code acquisition with full-period correlation in chip-synchronous DS/SS receivers , 2002, IEEE Trans. Commun..

[3]  Aggelos Bletsas,et al.  A simple Cooperative diversity method based on network path selection , 2005, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

[4]  D.R. Brown,et al.  Resource allocation for cooperative transmission in wireless networks with orthogonal users , 2004, Conference Record of the Thirty-Eighth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2004..

[5]  John G. Proakis,et al.  Digital Communications , 1983 .

[6]  Helmut Bölcskei,et al.  Fading relay channels: performance limits and space-time signal design , 2004, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

[7]  Thomas L. Marzetta,et al.  Capacity of a Mobile Multiple-Antenna Communication Link in Rayleigh Flat Fading , 1999, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory.

[8]  R. Adve,et al.  On Selection Cooperation in Distributed Networks , 2006, 2006 40th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems.

[9]  Lie-Liang Yang,et al.  Serial acquisition performance of single-carrier and multicarrier DS-CDMA over Nakagami-m fading channels , 2002, IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun..

[10]  Alejandro Ribeiro,et al.  Symbol error probabilities for general Cooperative links , 2005, IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun..

[11]  David G. Luenberger,et al.  Linear and nonlinear programming , 1984 .

[12]  Alexander M. Haimovich,et al.  Power allocation for cooperative relaying in wireless networks , 2005, IEEE Communications Letters.

[13]  Georgios B. Giannakis,et al.  On energy efficiency and optimum resource allocation of relay transmissions in the low-power regime , 2005, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[14]  Y.-P. Eric Wang,et al.  Cell search in W-CDMA , 2000, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

[15]  Yingbin Liang,et al.  Resource allocation for wireless relay channels , 2004, Conference Record of the Thirty-Eighth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2004..

[16]  Lie-Liang Yang,et al.  Serial acquisition of DS-CDMA signals in multipath fading mobile channels , 2001, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol..

[17]  A. Viterbi.  CDMA: Principles of Spread Spectrum Communication , 1995 .

[18]  Hyung-Rae Park.  Performance analysis of a double-dwell serial search technique for cellular CDMA networks in the case of multiple pilot signals , 1999 .

[19]  David Gesbert,et al.  From theory to practice: an overview of MIMO space-time coded wireless systems , 2003, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun..

[20]  Gregory W. Wornell,et al.  Distributed space-time-coded protocols for exploiting cooperative diversity in wireless networks , 2003, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory.

[21]  Lizhong Zheng,et al.  Diversity and multiplexing: a fundamental tradeoff in multiple-antenna channels , 2003, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory.

[22]  Lizhong Zheng,et al.  Communication on the Grassmann manifold: A geometric approach to the noncoherent multiple-antenna channel , 2002, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory.

[23]  Anders Høst-Madsen,et al.  Capacity bounds and power allocation for wireless relay channels , 2005, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

[24]  Mazen O. Hasna,et al.  Optimal power allocation for relayed transmissions over Rayleigh-fading channels , 2004, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[25]  Gregory W. Wornell,et al.  Cooperative diversity in wireless networks: Efficient protocols and outage behavior , 2004, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

[26]  Armin Wittneben,et al.  Impact of relay gain allocation on the performance of cooperative diversity networks , 2004, IEEE 60th Vehicular Technology Conference, 2004. VTC2004-Fall. 2004.

[27]  Hesham El Gamal,et al.  Distributed space-time filtering for cooperative wireless networks , 2003, GLOBECOM '03. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37489).

[28]  Charles Noblet,et al.  Downlink transmit power issues in a WCDMA cellular system , 2002 .

[29]  Lie-Liang Yang,et al.  Multicarrier DS-CDMA: a multiple access scheme for ubiquitous broadband wireless communications , 2003, IEEE Commun. Mag..