Abstract  Wireless digital communication networks are rapidly expanding resulting in a demand for reliable and h igh spectral efficiency systems. Multi'Carrier Code Div ision Multiple Access (MC'CDMA) has emerged recentl y as a promising candidate for the next generation broad'band mobile networks. Also it was found recently that Radon'discrete wavelet transform (DWT) based Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is capable of reducing the Inter Symbol Interference (ISI) and the Inter Carrier Interferen ce (ICI), which are caused by the loss of orthogona lity between the carriers. Radon'DWT'OFDM can also support much higher spectru m efficiency than Fast Fourier Transform'based OFDM (FFT' OFDM). In this paper a novel Radon'DWT'MC'CDMA tran sceiver design will be presented based on the Radon'DWT'OFDM that is used as a basic building block in the desig n of MC'CDMA transceiver to increase the orthogonal ity against the multi' path frequency selective fading channels. Simulatio n results are provided to demonstrate the significant gains in performance and simplicity due to the proposed technique. The B it Error Rate (BER) performance of the proposed Rad on'DWT'MC'CDMA scheme was compared with that of FFT based MC'CDMA, Radon based MC'CDMA, and Discrete Multiwavelet Transform (DMWT) based CDMA and tested in AWGN, Flat fading a nd Selective fading channels. The simulation results showed that proposed system outperforms the other systems.  

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