Multiple Access Techniques for
Wireless Communication
   FDMA
   TDMA
   SDMA
   PDMA
Introduction
•   many users at same time
•   share a finite amount of radio spectrum
•   high performance
•   duplexing generally required
•   frequency domain
•   time domain
Frequency division duplexing (FDD)
•   two bands of frequencies for every user
•   forward band
•   reverse band
•   duplexer needed
•   frequency seperation between forward band
    and reverse band is constant
      reverse channel          forward channel
                frequency seperation             f
    Time division duplexing (TDD)
•   uses time for forward and reverse link
•   multiple users share a single radio channel
•   forward time slot
•   reverse time slot
•   no duplexer is required
        reverse channel          forward channel
                                                   t
                    time seperation
Multiple Access Techniques
•   Frequency division multiple access (FDMA)
•   Time division multiple access (TDMA)
•   Code division multiple access (CDMA)
•   Space division multiple access (SDMA)
•   grouped as:
•   narrowband systems
•   wideband systems
    Narrowband systems
•   large number of narrowband channels
•   usually FDD
•   Narrowband FDMA
•   Narrowband TDMA
•   FDMA/FDD
•   FDMA/TDD
•   TDMA/FDD
•   TDMA/TDD
Logical separation FDMA/FDD
               forward channel
      user 1
               reverse channel
                 ...             f
               forward channel
      user n
               reverse channel
                       t
Logical separation FDMA/TDD
                    user 1
      forward channel    reverse channel
                      ...                  f
                    user n
      forward channel    reverse channel
                            t
Logical separation TDMA/FDD
               forward                      forward
               channel                      channel
      user 1             ...       user n             f
               reverse                      reverse
               channel                      channel
                               t
Logical separation TDMA/TDD
          user 1                      user n
                       ...
     forward reverse             forward reverse   f
     channel channel             channel channel
                             t
Wideband systems
•   large number of transmitters on one channel
•   TDMA techniques
•   CDMA techniques
•   FDD or TDD multiplexing techniques
•   TDMA/FDD
•   TDMA/TDD
•   CDMA/FDD
•   CDMA/TDD
Logical separation CDMA/FDD
                    user 1
      forward channel    reverse channel
                      ...                  code
                    user n
      forward channel    reverse channel
                            f
Logical separation CDMA/TDD
                    user 1
      forward channel    reverse channel
                      ...                  code
                    user n
      forward channel    reverse channel
                            t
Multiple Access Techniques in use
                                        Multiple Access
     Cellular System
                                          Technique
Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS)        FDMA/FDD
Global System for Mobile (GSM)             TDMA/FDD
US Digital Cellular (USDC)                 TDMA/FDD
Digital European Cordless Telephone (DECT) FDMA/TDD
US Narrowband Spread Spectrum (IS-95)      CDMA/FDD
Frequency division multiple access FDMA
• one phone circuit per channel
• idle time causes wasting of resources
• simultaneously and continuously
  transmitting
• usually implemented in narrowband systems
• for example: in AMPS is a FDMA
  bandwidth of 30 kHz implemented