The analysis of the effect of carrier phase errors on MC-CDMA performance
Zhang Dengyin①; Zheng Baoyu②
①Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Tech., Nanjing Univ. of Posts and Telecom., Nanjing 210003,China;②Dept. of Info. Eng., Nanjing Univ. of Posts and Telecom., Nanjing 210003,China
Abstract：This paper presents the effect of carrier phase error on MC-CDMA performance in downlink mobile communications. Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and Bit-Error-Rate (BER.) is analyzed taking into account the effect, of carrier phase error. It is shown that the MC-CDMA system is very sensitive to a carrier frequency offset, and the system performance rapidly degrades and strongly depends on the number of carriers. For a maximal load, the degradation caused by carrier phase jitter is independent of the number of the carriers.
2003, Vol. 25 
