An efficient approach for sub-carrier allocation in MIMO MC-CDMA systems

Muhammet Nuri Seyman – Bircan Demiral

   Sub-carrier allocation is an important process that directly affects user's data and bit error rates for multi-user multi-carrier systems. The most important feature of the allocation process is to assign the sub-carriers to the active users in proportion to their needs to provide high-speed data transmission and reduce the bit error rates. In this study, an efficient subcarrier allocation algorithm has been proposed based on both capacity and fairness criteria for a MIMO MC-CDMA system, which is preferred as the multiplexing scheme in high data rate communication systems. The proposed algorithm achieves not only better error rate performance but also increases the total data rate compared to other algorithms

Keywords: MIMO MC-CDMA, subcarrier allocation, fairness, capacity

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