A PO-CI/MC-CDMA scheme for high modulation styles

Through analyzing the theoretical spreading principle,it has been proved in this paper that the benefit of pseudo-orthogonal carrier interferometry(PO-CI)spreading code is not supported when complex signal modulation(e.g.,quadrature phase-shift keying(QPSK)and quadrature amplitude modulation(QAM))types are employed.On this basis,a novel and feasible structure for this problem is brought forward.Within the structure mentioned,instead of complex modulation patterns,pulse amplitude modulation(PAM)combined with PO-CI spreading code is utilized.This allows us to maintain the throughput increase of a multi-carrier code division multiple access(MC-CDMA)system with minimal loss in performance and no bandwidth expansion.