Comparison between MC-CDMA and CDMA- OFDM/OQAM systems in presence of MIMO channel

In this paper, we present a comparison between MCCDMA and CDMA-OFDM/OQAM systems in the case of MIMO channel. The advanced Multi Carrier CDMA OFDM/OQAM modulation is a combination of CDMA and OFDM/OQAM. This combination takes advantages from multicarrier modulation and spread spectrum. Indeed, the use of OFDM has proved its ability to fight against frequency selective channels but the insertion of guard interval yields spectral efficiency loss and sensitivity to frequency dispersion due to the use of rectangular pulse shape. Thus, cyclic prefix OFDM is replaced by an advanced filterbank-based multicarrier system OFDM/OQAM that operates without guard interval. However, OFDM/OQAM provides orthogonality only on the real domain, so transmitted symbols must be real valued. In the other hand, the CDMA component has two advantages: multiple access interference cancellation and providing orthogonality in the complex domain. From the orthogonality property provided, the Alamouti ST code can be combined with MC-CDMA-OQAM system in order to exploit space and time diversity. Numerical results show the utility of this new wireless communication system MIMO-CDMA-OFDM/OQAM in comparison with MIMO-MC-CDMA system.