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Bounds on the Sum Capacity of Synchronous Binary CDMA Channels

Alishahi, Kasra
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Marvasti, Farokh
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Aref, Vahid  
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2009
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

In this paper, we obtain a family of lower bounds for the sum capacity of code-division multiple-access (CDMA) channels assuming binary inputs and binary signature codes in the presence of additive noise with an arbitrary distribution. The envelope of this family gives a relatively tight lower bound in terms of the number of users, spreading gain, and the noise distribution. The derivation methods for the noiseless and the noisy channels are different but when the noise variance goes to zero, the noisy channel bound approaches the noiseless case. The behavior of the lower bound shows that for small noise power, the number of users can be much more than the spreading gain without any significant loss of information (overloaded CDMA). A conjectured upper bound is also derived under the usual assumption that the users send out equally likely binary bits in the presence of additive noise with an arbitrary distribution. As the noise level increases, and/or, the ratio of the number of users and the spreading gain increases, the conjectured upper bound approaches the lower bound. We have also derived asymptotic limits of our bounds that can be compared to a formula that Tanaka obtained using techniques from statistical physics; his bound is close to that of our conjectured upper bound for large scale systems.

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DOI
10.1109/TIT.2009.202375
Author(s)
Alishahi, Kasra
Marvasti, Farokh
Aref, Vahid  
Pad, Pedram  
Date Issued

2009

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Published in
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Volume

55

Issue

8

Start page

3577

End page

3593

Subjects

Binary code-division multiple access (CDMA)

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multiple-access channels (MACs)

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multiuser detection (MUD)

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sum capacity

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synchronous CDMA

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tight bounds

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http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=05165172
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NON-REVIEWED

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OTHER

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February 6, 2013
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