Design of a high-speed MC-CDMA system for broadband mobile radio communications

This paper is concerned with a new method to enhance the bandwidth efficiency of an MC-CDMA system by using a residue number based representation for information symbols. The residues are mapped into a set of orthogonal sequences and are transmitted in parallel. To increase the data rate further, a modified residue representation scheme is used with significantly lesser number of orthogonal sequences. A multicarrier modulation scheme is used for both transmission and reception of residue channels. The issues involved in the design of an enhanced RNS based MC-CDMA architecture is discussed and the performance of the system is evaluated in a frequency selective Rayleigh fading channel via extensive simulations.