Efficient transceiver architecture to mitigate the effect of MAI in optical CDMA

Optical CDMA systems have received much attention in fiber optic networks where the high-speed, the huge band width, the secure and immune communication, asynchronous and simultaneous access for multiple users on the same channel. Those features nominate strongly Optical CDMA for future optical multimedia networks. However, multiple access interference (MAI), which is originated from other simultaneous users, severely limits the capacity of the system. In this paper, an efficient transceiver architecture has been proposed using MAI cancellation to improve the performance of the existence simple transceiver without MAI cancellation. The strategy of the proposed transceiver is based on an estimation and cancellation of MAI in Optical CDMA system with employing a new spreading code named double padded modified prime code (DPMPC) and an efficient pulse-position modulation (PPM) scheme. In addition, for further improvement of the bit-error rate (BER) performance for the proposed transceiver Manchester coding (source coding) is used in signaling the transmitted data. The MAI estimation is achieved by pre-reserving one of optical spreading code sequences at the receiver based on the correlation property of the DPMPC. The proposed receiver estimates the interference and cancels it out from the received signal after the photo-detection process. The performance of the proposed transceiver architecture and its improvement will be compared with the performance of simple transceiver without MAI cancellation. The performance of various codes like modified prime code (MPC), new modified prime code (NMPC) are applied and compared with the proposed DPMPC to demonstrate its potential. An upper bound on the BER for the proposed system is derived and compared with a lower bound on the BER from the system without cancellation. The simulated computer results reveal that the performance, in terms of the BER, of the proposed system is significance improved compared with that of the system without cancellation.