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In this paper, the performance of multiuser CDMA systems with different space time code schemes is investigated over Nakagami fading channel. Low-complexity multiuser receiver schemes are developed for space-time coded CDMA systems with perfect and imperfect channel state information (CSI). The schemes can make full use of the complex orthogonality of space-time coding to obtain the linear decoding complexity, and thus simplify the exponential decoding complexity of the existing scheme greatly. Moreover, it can achieve almost the same performance as the existing scheme. Based on the bit error rate (BER) analysis of the systems, the theoretical calculation expressions of average BER are derived in detail for both perfect CSI and imperfect CSI, respectively. As a result, tight closed-form BER expressions are obtained for space-time coded CDMA with orthogonal spreading code, and approximate closed-form BER expressions are attained for space-time coded CDMA with quasi-orthogonal spreading code. Computer simulation for BER shows that the theoretical analysis and simulation are in good agreement. The results show that the space-time coded CDMA systems have BER performance degradation for imperfect CSI.
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Yu, X., Xu, D. Performance Analysis of Space-Time Coded CDMA System Over Nakagami Fading Channels with Perfect and Imperfect CSI. Wireless Pers Commun 62, 633–653 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-010-0086-5
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