Performance Analysis of Optimum Interleaver based on Prime Numbers for Multiuser Iterative IDMA Systems

In recently proposed multiple access techniques like IDMA and OFDM-IDMA, the user separation is done by user specific interleavers in contrast to the conventional CDMA scheme, where user separation is assured with user-specific signature sequences. The user specific interleavers must demonstrate minimum probability of collision amongst each other in addition to other merits, including minimal consumption of bandwidth, least hardware for their generation, and least memory requirement. In this paper, the authors propose an interleaver based on prime numbers for the generation of user specific interleavers to remove the problem of high consumption of bandwidth. The simulation results demonstrate the optimal performance of prime interleaver (PI), which is based on prime numbers, apart from other merits in comparison to random and other interleavers. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0050-8.ch012