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How Equalization Techniques Affect the TCP Performance of MC-CDMA Systems in Correlated Fading Channels

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This paper investigates the impact of several equalization techniques for multicarrier code division multiple access systems on the performance at both lower and upper layers (i.e., physical and TCP layers). Classical techniques such as maximal ratio combining, equal gain combining, orthogonality restoring combining, minimum mean square error, as well as a partial equalization (PE) are investigated in time- and frequency-correlated fading channels with various numbers of interferers. Their impact on the performance at upper level is then studied. The results are obtained through an integrated simulation platform carefully reproducing all main aspects affecting the quality of service perceived by the final user, allowing an investigation of the real gain produced by signal processing techniques at TCP level.

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Masini, B.M., Leonardi, G., Conti, A. et al. How Equalization Techniques Affect the TCP Performance of MC-CDMA Systems in Correlated Fading Channels. J Wireless Com Network 2008, 286351 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/286351

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