Scale Time Offset Robust Modulation for code division multiaccess

Abstract

This paper introduces and analyzes Scale-Time Offset Robust Modulation (STORM) for use in code division multiaccess (CDMA) systems using spread quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) to increase the capacity of a CDMA network. Since current commercial CDMA systems have dedicated spectrum, the capacity is primarily limited by the interference of other CDMA users; thus, power control and multiuser interference mitigation are the focus of CDMA capacity enhancements. Although extensive research in these areas continues, significant, robust, practical capacity enhancements have been difficult to realize for existing commercial CDMA systems such as Wideband-CDMA (WCDMA). STORM offers potential to practically enhance the capacity of CDMA systems by robustly realizing more rapid power control and more efficient multiuser interference mitigation.