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NEXT GENERATION CDMA vs OFDMA FOR 4G WIRELESS APPLICATIONS Introduction moves

The great success of the Internet and wireless communications has background opened a new vista for future all-IP wireless applications, driven by increasing demand for packet data services in worldwide 2.5G and 3G networks. It has been envisioned that the future wireless systems will be operating based mainly on burst data services carrying multimedia contents, including voice, data, image and video.

The needs to support high-speed burst-type traffic in wireless channels It is worth giving it have already posed a great challenge to the current air-link technologies financial backing. based on CDMA. There have been a lot of debates on the air-link And this is what technologies most suitable for the 4G wireless. It has been suggested motivates from the research that the traditional CDMA technologies (used in study. IS-95, CDMA2000, W-CDMA, TD-SCDMA, etc.) are suited only for slow-speed continuous-transmission applications such as voice, but not suitable for high-speed all-IP wireless. my

Therefore, some new multiple access technology, such as orthogonal The frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), has been proposed to research replace CDMA as a prime air-link design for 4G wireless. However, niche. the OFDMA also suffers from some technical limitations, such as sensitivity to peak-to-average-power-ratio (PAPR), nonlinear channels and so forth, which will be the detrimental factors to its successful applications in 4G wireless. On the other hand, CDMA technology with its many unique features still has a great potential for further technological evolution.

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In this special issue, various important issues pertaining to the next The reason why the generation CDMA and OFDMA technologies will be addressed and project is chosen compared. The objective of this special issue is to accelerate and what are the technological evolution of air-link architecture for 4G wireless benefits of it . communications. The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 gives a summary of outline OFDMA, and Section 3 discusses CDMA. The combination of these two, i.e., MC-CDMA is described in Section 4. A relative comparison is given in Section 5. Finally, some concluding remarks are given in Section 7.

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