Spectral Efficiency of Random Time-Hopping CDMA

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Abstract: Traditionally paired with impulsive communications, Time-Hopping CDMA (TH-CDMA) is a multiple access technique that separates users in time by coding their transmissions into pulses occupying a subset of Nmathsfs chips out of the total N included in a symbol period, in contrast with traditional Direct-Sequence CDMA (DS-CDMA) where Nmathsfs=N. This work analyzes TH-CDMA with random spreading, by determining whether peculiar theoretical limits are identifiable, with both optimal and sub-optimal receiver structures, in particular in the archetypal case of sparse spreading, that is, Nmathsfs=1. Results indicate that TH-CDMA has a fundamentally different behavior than DS-CDMA, where the crucial role played by energy concentration, typical of time-hopping, directly relates with its intrinsic "uneven" use of degrees of freedom.











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