A Novel PM-OFDM-CDMA System for 5G Wireless Communication with High Capacity and Low Energy Consumption

Phase Modulation Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (PM-OFDM) and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) have distinctive advantages. On one hand, PM-OFDM is an attractive technique to combat multipath fading and reduce high PAPR in conventional OFDM. On the other hand, CDMA has the ability to serve multiple users at the same time and/or frequency. In this article, a new PM-OFDM-CDMA system that combines PM-OFDM and CDMA is proposed. The idea behind the proposed technique is to combine the advantages of these techniques in order to enhance the performance of the 5G system by serving multiple users simultaneously. The performance of the proposed system is analysed in terms of BER under different channel conditions. A Minimum Mean Square Equaliser (MMSE) scheme is used in order to avoid the effect of multipath effect and noise simultaneously. From the simulation results, we conclude that the proposed system has good performance that can improve 5G wireless communication networks, especially for battery-powered mobile devices. This amounts to the constant envelope of the proposed waveform which generates constant instantaneous power and therefore reduced PAPR.