Successive Interference Cancellation for Orthogonal Chirp Division Multiplexing

In this paper, we propose a communication receivers' architecture to simplify the Orthogonal Chirp Division Multiplexing (OCDM) channel equalization and to subtract multi-carrier interference followed by a successive interference cancellation (SIC) scheme in order to cancel the remaining interference. The interference introduced by underwater acoustic channel is estimated using a pre-acknowledged pilot symbol sequence, and then the interference can be optimally estimated and subtracted from the received signal. This process is repeated simultaneously for all OCDM carriers until a stationary point or a threshold is reached. Simulation results from Watermark are applied to illustrate the performance of the OCDM scheme with the presented successive interference cancellation algorithm. Results shows that the Bit Error Rate (BER) enhancement can reaches 102 in BCH1 channel. As expected, the combination of OCDM and presented SIC algorithm is shown to increase the output SNR over OCDM alone in multi-path shall water acoustic channel.