Author : Deepak Kedia and Manoj Duhan

Multicarrier CDMA is considered to be the most important technique for future generation mobile systems. It
combines orthogonal multicarrier modulation with CDMA and is very robust in multipath fading environment.
Despite many potential benefits of MC-CDMA, there are certain implementation issues like choice of proper spreading codes, peak to average power ratio and suitable modulation techniques which require due consideration. Therefore, this paper investigates and evaluates the performance of MC-CDMA system in terms of BER, PAPR and Modulation techniques in Rayleigh faded environment.

Keywords: Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Multicarrier (MC), Bit Error Rate (BER), Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR), Spreading Factor (SF), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM).

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.5, No.4 (Aug-2015)