A new correlator receiver architecture for noncoherent optical CDMAnetworks with bipolar capacity

A new correlator receiver architecture based on a modified version of unipolar-bipolar correlation is proposed for noncoherent optical fiber code-division multiple-access (CDMA) networks. For this architecture, the receiver average bit-error rate (BER) performance is numerically evaluated as a function of the received optical power for noncoherent transmission and direct detection with the number of simultaneous users as a parameter. The BER performance is also evaluated by a closed-form formula that is developed in this paper. Comparison of the results from the latter with numerical results show that, the formula provides a good approximation to the system performance. Furthermore, the closed form solution suggests that the system can achieve the same capacity as a CDMA system using coherent detection     

Interferometric Noise Characterization and Suppression in Optical CDMA Networks

A solution for suppressing multiple-access interference and incoherent interferometric noise in 2-D optical code-division multiple access (CDMA) networks is demonstrated using a dispersion-imbalanced loop mirror containing a 15-m heavily GeO$_{2}$-doped fiber. From the experimental study of the degradation caused by noise, bit-error-rate (BER) measurements in a two-user system having coherent, partially coherent, and incoherent interferometric noise without the dispersion-imbalanced loop mirror exhibit error floors above BER $=10 ^{-6}$. Including the dispersion-imbalanced loop mirror before the receiver allows error-free transmission, and reduces the power penalty from the noise by 7 dB. The solution presented increases the receiver sensitivity and accentuates the flexibility of the optical CDMA networks.      

MAI and ICI of Asynchronous Uplink MC-CDMA With Frequency Offset

In this paper, we analyze the performance of random spreading code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems with a multicarrier in asynchronous uplink channels. We first derive the probability density function (pdf) of the multiple-access interference (MAI) plus noise and then extend the results to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with intercarrier interference (ICI) that is caused by a frequency offset. We obtain the pdf of the MAI and the ICI plus noise under Rayleigh and frequency-selective fading as a function of the number of users and the spreading factor, as well as the number of subcarriers and the frequency offset. The bit-error-rate (BER) analysis shows that the power penalty from the frequency offset increases with the system loading. We develop the Gaussian approximation that provides an accurate estimation of the BER with reduced computational complexity comparing to the direct calculations using the pdf.     

大气二维光PPM CDMA通信系统

提出了采用脉冲相位调制(PPM)和采用纠错能力极强的Turbo码进行信道编码的大气信道二维光码分多址(OCDMA)系统,考虑存在多用户干扰、大气闪烁、背景光噪声以及APD接收机噪声等问题,研究了信道编码前后系统误码率性能.对M=4的PPM OCDMA系统的误码率性能研究表明,在光强闪烁的对数方差小于0.1时,能够实现大气OCDMA通信;在采用Turbo编码后,系统性能明显改善,和只采用多用户干扰检测技术的系统方案比较,采用Turbo编码可更有效改善系统性能.     

Coherent ultrashort light pulse code-division multiple accesscommunication systems

A new technique for encoding and decoding of coherent ultrashort light pulses is analyzed. In particular, the temporal and statistical behavior of pseudonoise bursts generated by spectral phase coding of ultrashort optical pulses is discussed. the analysis is motivated by recent experiments that demonstrate high-resolution spectral phase coding of picosecond and femtosecond pulses and suggest the possibility of ultrahigh speed code-division multiple-access (CDMA) communications using this technique. The evolution of coherent ultrashort pulses into low intensity pseudonoise bursts as a function of the degree of phase coding is traced. The results are utilized to analyze the performance of a proposed CDMA optical communications system based upon encoding and decoding of ultrashort light pulses. The bit error rate (BER) is derived as a function of data rate, number of users, and receiver threshold, and the performance characteristics are discussed for a variety of system parameters. It is found that performance improves greatly with increasing code length     

Design of a low-complexity adaptive interference-mitigatingdetector for DS/SS receivers in CDMA radio networks

Code-division multiple-access (CDMA) with direct-sequence/spread-spectrum (DS/SS) modulated signals has emerged as a strong candidate for the air interface of the universal wireless personal communication network planned for the end of the century. In this paper, we take into consideration a low-complexity blind adaptive interference-mitigating detector (BAID) scheme that minimizes the detrimental effect of the multiple-access interference (MAI) on the bit-error-rate (BER) performance of a CDMA data demodulator. We describe a few modifications to the original algorithm that make it more suitable to a practical implementation with dual-binary phase-shift keying (D-BPSK)-modulated DS/SS signals. Specifically, we show how to make the BAID invariant to a possible carrier phase offset introduced in the front-end of the data demodulator, and we also suggest how to increase the robustness of such detector to asynchronous MAI. The uncoded BER performance of the resulting “extended” detector is then evaluated theoretically and by computer simulation in the case of coherent and differential signal detection     

Limits to the encoding and bounds on the performance of coherentultrashort light pulse code-division multiple-access

The authors obtain lower and upper bounds on the peak intensity of a spectrally phase encoded ultrashort light pulse as a function of the length of spectral phase encoding. It is shown that using random phase codes for spectral encoding of ultrashort light pulses in a coherent ultrashort light pulse code-division multiple-access (CDMA) system is almost optimal. Furthermore, simple upper bounds and an asymptotic approximation on the bit error rate (BER) for a wide class of ultrashort light pulse CDMA systems are obtained. It is shown that, in spite of being simple, these upper bounds can be used to evaluate the performance of a coherent ultrashort light pulse CDMA system     

Asynchronous multicarrier DS-CDMA using mutually orthogonalcomplementary sets of sequences

The use of sets of multiple spreading sequences per user in multicarrier code-division multiple-access (CDMA) is investigated. Each user is assumed to have a distinct set of spreading sequences, with a different spreading sequence for each carrier in each user's set. We show that when these sets of sequences are chosen to be the mutually orthogonal (MO) complementary sets of sequences, multiple-access interference is minimal on a nonfading channel. As a result of the autocorrelation sidelobe cancellation properties of the MO complementary sequences, it is possible to pack symbols more closely together on the nonfading channel, resulting in a higher data rate than in multicarrier CDMA using the same spreading sequence for each carrier. The resulting communication system scheme results in an easily parallelized receiver architecture that may be useful in nonfading coherent channels, such as the optical fiber channel or the Rician channel with a strong line-of-sight component. On the Rayleigh fading channel, the performance of the system is identical to that of multicarrier CDMA employing a single spreading sequence per user, with only a minimal increase in receiver complexity     

The use of coding and diversity combining for mitigating fadingeffects in a DS/CDMA system

Spatial diversity is an attractive technology to cope with the fading channel encountered in mobile communications. This paper presents novel closed analytical expressions of the bit-error rate (BER) achievable in a coherent binary phase-shift-keying (CBPSK) direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS/CDMA) system for any power delay profile and for either postdetection selection or maximal ratio combining (MRC). In particular, expressions for the cutoff rate R _o and for its related parameter D are also formulated in order to assess the system performance under the consideration of some channel coding schemes. Finally, an exemplary study is carried out in order to illustrate the behavior of a realistic space-diversity code-division multiple-access (CDMA) system according to the analytical expressions that have been derived     

Combinatorial BER analysis of synchronous optical CDMA with primesequences

A previous BER analysis (see ibid., vol.39, no.11, p.1625, 1991) is based on a Gaussian approximation. We derive a combinatorial BER analysis and an improved Gaussian approximation for synchronous optical code-division multiple-access (S/CDMA) with prime codes. This analysis is shown to be in good agreement with the Gaussian approximation as well as with simulation results     

Performance comparison of proposed 3-d coherent spatial-phase-time coding/decoding with super structured fiber Bragg grating-based optical CDMA systems

In this paper, performance comparison in terms of bit error rate (BER) of proposed WDM compatible optical CDMA system incorporating 3-D spectral-phase-time encoding/decoding to a 7 chip-super-structured fiber Bragg grating (SSFBG)-based optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) system is investigated. Coding and decoding using binary [0, π] phase chips is demonstrated for six users at 5 Gb/s, and a single coded signal is separated with acceptable bit-error rate ≤10^?9. In our proposed optical CDMA system encoding and decoding is done by converting hadamard codes (used for conventional CDMA system) to phase codes. It is then compared with two optical pulse retiming and reshaping systems incorporating super structured fiber Bragg gratings (SSFBGs) as pulse shaping elements. Simulation results show that with all input bands having same sample rate, size data rates our proposed codes with even larger number of channels perform better in terms of eye opening & BER.     

Gradient estimation for stochastic optimization of opticalcode-division multiple-access systems .I. Generalized sensitivityanalysis

For optimizing the performance of optical code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems, there is a need for determining the sensitivity of the bit-error rate (BER) of the system to various system parameters. Asymptotic approximations and bounds, used for system bit-error probabilities, seldom capture the sensitivities of the system performance. We develop single-run gradient estimation methods for such optical CDMA systems using a discrete-event dynamic systems (DEDS) approach. Specifically, computer-aided techniques such as infinitesimal perturbation analysis (IPA) and likelihood ratio (LR) methods are used for analyzing the sensitivity of the average BER to a wide class of system parameters. It is shown that the above formulation is equally applicable to time-encoded and frequency-encoded systems. Further, the estimates derived are unbiased, and also optimality of the variance of these estimates is shown via the theory of common random variates and importance sampling techniques     

Multiple-Access Strategies for Frequency-Selective MIMO Channels

In this paper, we consider frequency-selective coherent multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) multiple-access fading channels. Assuming that each of the users employs orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), we introduce a multiple-access scheme that gradually varies the amount of user collision in signal space by assigning different subsets of the available OFDM tones to different users. The corresponding multiple-access schemes range from frequency-division multiple access (FDMA) (each OFDM tone is assigned to at most one user) to CDMA (each OFDM tone is assigned to all the users). We quantify the effect of signal space collision between the users by computing the ergodic capacity region for the entire family of multiple-access schemes. It is shown that the ergodic capacity region obtained by a fully collision-based scheme (CDMA) is an outer bound to that corresponding to any other multiple-access strategy. In practice, however, minimizing the amount of user collision in frequency is desirable as this minimizes the receiver complexity incurred by having to separate the interfering (colliding) signals. Our analysis shows that the impact of collision on spectral efficiency depends critically on the channel's spatial fading statistics and the number of antennas     

All-Optical Asynchronous Detection for a Compact Integrable Incoherent Optical CDMA System

In this paper, we investigate all-optical truly asynchronous detection without global clocking in an incoherent optical code-division multiple-access (CDMA) system. The implemented system is designed with an integrable optical source consisting of an electro-absorption modulator for pulse carving, compact coders consisting of fiber Bragg grating arrays for encoding and decoding, and receiver consisting of an all-optical thresholder for data and clock recovery. We compare three detection schemes: (1) synchronous detection with data from a photodetector and clock from an external source; (2) asynchronous detection with data and clock from the all-optically thresholded signal received by a clock and data recovery (CDR) unit; and (3) asynchronous detection with data from a photodetector and clock extracted from the all-optically thresholded signal using CDR. Error-free transmission is obtained for detection schemes (1) and (3). A combination of all-optical thresholding and CDR technology is demonstrated in an optical CDMA system for the first time.     

Spectral-Amplitude-Coded OCDMA Optimized for a Realistic FBG Frequency Response

We develop a methodology for numerical optimization of fiber Bragg grating frequency response to maximize the achievable capacity of a spectral-amplitude-coded optical code-division multiple-access (SAC-OCDMA) system. The optimal encoders are realized, and we experimentally demonstrate an incoherent SAC-OCDMA system with seven simultaneous users. We report a bit error rate (BER) of 2.7times10^-8 at 622 Mb/s for a fully loaded network (seven users) using a 9.6-nm optical band. We achieve error-free transmission (BER<1times10^-9) for up to five simultaneous users     

System performance comparison of optical CDMA and WDMA in a broadcast local area network

The performance of optical code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems with wavelength-hopping/time-spreading codes is compared to that of a wavelength-division multiple-access (WDMA) system. The multiple-access techniques are applied in a time-slotted broadcast local area network. The utilization, defined as the throughput per unit of time-domain bandwidth expansion, and packet delay are used as metrics of performance. When more than seven wavelengths are available, optical CDMA systems using asymmetric prime-hop codes and all-optical signal processing are shown to have higher peak utilization and lower corresponding delay than a WDMA system with the same number of wavelengths. When the encoders/decoders operate at the chip rate, the utilization of optical CDMA exceeds that of WDMA at high offered loads; however, the peak utilization of the WDMA system is still superior.     

Comparison of pilot symbol-assisted and differentially detectedBPSK for DS-CDMA systems employing RAKE receivers in Rayleigh fadingchannels

The capacity of a code-division multiple-access (CDMA) system is a function of the bit error rate (BER) performance of individual users. Therefore, it is important to optimize the individual links before proceeding to system level analysis. This is particularly true for operating in a fading channel where the performance without diversity reception is rather poor. This paper compares the BER performance of differential detection and pilot symbol-assisted coherent detection of a direct-sequence (DS) spread-spectrum (SS) signal on a frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channel using RAKE reception. Both equal gain and maximal ratio combining are considered, and the effect of convolutional coding with interleaving is studied. It is shown that in the particular cases considered in this paper, rate 1/8 convolutionally encoded pilot symbol-assisted BPSK performs better than coded differential detection, thus providing a higher system capacity     

Image transmission in multicore-fiber code-division multiple-accessnetworks

Two-dimensional (2-D) signature patterns, so-called optical orthogonal signature pattern codes (OOSPCs), were previously proposed to encode binary digitized image pixels in optical code-division multiple-access (CDMA) networks with “multicore” fiber. The new technology enables parallel transmission and simultaneous access of 2-D images in a multiple-access environment. However, previous work on OOSPCs assumed that the weight of every signature pattern in a code set was the same. In this paper, we construct and analyze a new family of OOSPCs without this assumption. Since the performance of a signature pattern varies with its code weight, our approach is useful for optical CDMA networks with a multiple performance requirement     

Repeater Fault Location for a Submarine Optical Fiber Cable Transmission System

This paper introduces a repeater fault location system for a repeated submarine optical fiber transmission system of 400 Mbits/ s at 1.3μm. The repeater fault location system is used in an out-of-service test. The fault locator transmits a test signal via a main optical fiber line, in order to make a loop-back path in one of the repeaters for returning the test signals via another main optical fiber line and to measure the bit error rate (BER) of the interrogated repeater. The test signal is a kind of pseudorandom signal that includes a low frequency component, which is assigned to the repeater as a supervisory frequency tone (SVT) signal. The BER is measured by counting the number of low frequency signal phase inversions in a time. This paper first describes the test signal generating method, SVT frequency allocation, and the filter design installed in a repeater. Next, there is a discussion of how the capability of the repeater fault locator has been experimentally verified by using two submarine repeaters, including four regenerative repeater units and three submarine optical fiber cables. As a result, a BER of less than5 times 10^{-6}is accurately measured.     

Autocorrelation pulse distortion in optical fiber CDMA systemsemploying ladder networks

This paper extends a pulse propagation previously developed by Marcuse for the characterization of pulse transmission in single mode fibers to the case of pulsed optical code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems that employ encoders and decoders based on ladder networks. The model accounts for important degradation factors such as fiber dispersion, source linewidth (coherence), chip time duration and phase and delay mismatch between the source encoder and the destination decoder. Although results are only presented for the autocorrelation signal, the model can be employed to analyze the impact of the above mentioned