A new look at digital orthogonal transmultiplexers for cdma communications

Orthogonal transmultiplexers have been successfully utilized for multiuser communications. They are of the FDMA type in their most common version. The transmultiplexers using frequency selective PR-QMF's as their user codes were reported in the literature. This approach conflicts with the requirements of a CDMA communications system. We introduce novel spread spectrum PR-QMF codes in this correspondence, wherein the orthogonality is distributed over both time and frequency domains. It is shown that the proposed multivalued spread spectrum PR-QMF codes with minimized auto and cross-correlation properties outperform the conventional binary Gold codes in CDMA communication scenarios considered in the correspondence.