A hybrid pulse interval modulation-code division multiple access (PIM-CDMA)
is proposed. Air expression for the bit-error rate (BER) is given. Numeric
al results presented are compared with hybrid PPM-CDMA and OOK-CDMA schemes
. For a low number of users, PIM-CDMA achieves similar and marginally lower
BER performance compared with PPM-CDMA and OOK-CDMA, respectively. For a l
arge number of users, it offers better performance compared with OOK. (C) 2
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