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Multi-Carrier and Spread Spectrum Systems: From OFDM and MC ...

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120 Hybrid <strong>Multi</strong>ple Access Schemestional measures like channel coding or applying multiple transmit/receive antennas. Asa TDMA system, the instantaneous transmitted power in the terminal station is high,which requires more powerful high power amplifiers than for FDMA or <strong>OFDM</strong>A systems.Furthermore, the <strong>MC</strong>-TDMA system as an <strong>OFDM</strong> system needs a high outputpower back-off.As shown in Figure 3-9, the terminal station of an <strong>MC</strong>-TDMA system is synchronizedto the base station in order to reduce the synchronization overhead. The transmitter of theterminal station extracts from the demodulated downlink data such as MAC messages,burst allocation, power control <strong>and</strong> timing advance, <strong>and</strong> further clock <strong>and</strong> frequencysynchronization information. In other words, the synchronization of the terminal stationis achieved using the MAC control messages to perform time synchronization <strong>and</strong>using frequency information issued from the terminal station downlink demodulator (therecovered base station system clock). MAC control messages are processed by the MACmanagement block to instruct the terminal station modulator on the transmission resourcesassigned to it <strong>and</strong> to tune the access. Here, the pilot/reference symbols are inserted at thetransmitter side to ease the burst synchronization <strong>and</strong> channel estimation tasks at the basestation. At the base station, the received burst issued by each terminal station is detected<strong>and</strong> multi-carrier demodulated.It should be emphasized that the transmitter <strong>and</strong> receiver structure of an <strong>MC</strong>-TDMAsystem is quite similar to that of an <strong>OFDM</strong>/<strong>OFDM</strong>A system. The same components,such as FFT, channel estimation, equalization, <strong>and</strong> soft channel decoding, can be used forboth, except that for an <strong>MC</strong>-TDMA system a burst synchronization is required, equivalentTS ReceiverBS TransmitterMACmessagesClock,frequencyDownlinkMedium Access Controller(MAC)Clock,frequencyMAC- Time burst allocation,- Power control, RangingSynchronizationSynchronizationInterleaving,EncodingSymbol mapping<strong>Multi</strong>-carrier modulator(IFFT)Terminal Station<strong>MC</strong>-TDMA TransmitterTDMA burst formattingD/A & RFPilot/Ref.insertionRFoutputUplinkRFinputRF & A/DBurst synchronization<strong>Multi</strong>-carrier demodulator(IFFT)Base Station<strong>MC</strong>-TDMA ReceiverEqualization, DemappingDeinterleaving, DecodingChannelestimationFigure 3-9General <strong>MC</strong>-TDMA conceptual transceiver

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