Everything about Multi-carrier code-division multiple access

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Multi-carrier code-division multiple accessA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Non Orthogonal Multiple Access for Multi-carrier Code Division Multiple Access Systems with Energy HarvestingInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Conspirators HierarchyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Extended Carrier-Hopping Prime Codes for Wavelength-Time Optical Code-Division Multiple AccessCited 29 times
5. Go sideways: Carrier interferometryA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Orthogonal frequency-division multiple accessA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Extended Carrier-Hopping Prime Codes for Wavelength-Time Optical Code-Division Multiple Access

  W.C. Kwong, G.-C. Yang · 2004 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 29 citations

• Spatial Modulated Multicarrier Sparse Code-Division Multiple Access

  Yusha Liu, Lie-Liang Yang, Pei Xiao · 2020 · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications · 19 citations

• Time-Hopping Multicarrier Code-Division Multiple Access

  Lie-Liang Yang · 2007 · IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology · 13 citations

• Mitigation of co-channel interferences in cognitive multi-carrier code division multiple access system by singular value decomposition techniques

  I. Nelson, C. Annadurai, R. Kalidoss · 2017 · Cluster Computing · 10 citations

• Cooperative communication‐aided multi‐carrier code division multiple access downlink transmission with transmitter preprocessing: performance results

  Prabagarane Nagaradjane, Sriram Ravichandran, Nithin Srinivasan · 2013 · IET Communications · 9 citations

• Performance evaluation of asynchronous multi‐carrier code division multiple access for next‐generation long‐reach fibre optic access networks

  Morteza H. Shoreh, Hamzeh Beyranvand, Jawad A. Salehi · 2015 · IET Optoelectronics · 9 citations

• Receiver Design Using Artificial Neural Network for Signal Detection in Multi Carrier – Code Division Multiple Access System

  VIT University, Ravi Chinthaginjala, Kalapraveen Bagadi · 2017 · International Journal of Intelligent Engineering and Systems · 9 citations

• A space-frequency block codes MIMO single-carrier code-frequency-division multiple access system

  Abdullah Y. Alamri, Ehab F. Badran · 2020 · AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications · 7 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Non Orthogonal Multiple Access for Multi-carrier Code Division Multiple Access Systems with Energy Harvesting

  Raed Alhamad, Hatem Boujemaa · 2024 · Wireless Personal Communications · 2 citations

• Performance Analysis of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Multi-Carrier Code-Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) Combined with Quasi-Orthogonal Space Time Block Coding (QO-STBC) in Rayleigh Fading Channel

  Eka Kusumawardhani, Rina Pudji Astuti, Nachwan Mufti Adriansyah · 2022 · POSITRON · 1 citations

• Phase Carrier approach based on Optical Code Division Multiple Access Networks

  HILAL FADHIL · 2022 · Applied computing Journal · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
• 📕Multi-carrier direct-sequence code division multiple access for mobile radio systemsQingxin Chen · 1996
• A TOUR OF THE WORLDMalik Mansab Khan, Muhammad Rafique Abdul Aziz · 2025

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