Optical code division multiple access (CDMA)-based networks are an interesting alternative to support various traffic types of multimedia applications with highly variable performance targets. Generally, multilength codes are designed to support multirate services, while the multiweight codes are designed to support differentiated quality of service (QoS) for multimedia applications. However, existing optical orthogonal codes (OOCs) are limited to single class or multiclass with restricted weight and length properties. Therefore, there exists a lack of flexibility in the existing OOCs to support arbitrary rate and QoS. This paper presents a proposal of generation procedure and performance analysis of joint multiweight multilength strict OOCs. The approach used in this paper is to apply a methodology strongly relying on developed analytical theory that is supported by computer optimization, because it has turned out that it is mathematically intractable to construct unconstraint joint multilength multiweight OOCs using pure algebraic techniques. The generated code set fulfills the conditions of strictly OOCs, namely, the maximum nonzero shift autocorrelation and the maximum cross correlation constraints of one. The mark position difference (MPD) approach is used to generate in a flexible way the multiclass code set. The MPD results in the simple evaluation of multiclass code set cardinality. Furthermore, the multiple-access interference (MAI) in a multiclass OOC system is evaluated by modeling the interference per class as a Poisson distribution to simplify performance evaluation with acceptable accuracy.

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SUMMARYWhen there is no feedback channels in wireless sensor networks or when the sensors are deaf (cannot listen to the feedback channels), the conventional and practical method for power allocation is to use fixed power transmission. This method has many limitations such as near-far problems where the relatively far away sensors are blocked by near sensors and also the unnecessarily high power consumption for good channel sensors. One recent proposal to overcome such limitations is to use uniform random power allocation for terminals. In that work the system performance is analysed for static channels (i.e. snapshot assumption), where it shows that there is a considerable obtained gain when using uniform random power allocation over fixed power. An important question is about the performance of such transmission power strategy in case of a more realistic channel scenario such as Rayleigh fading channels. This paper answers this question. Detailed mathematical analysis as well as Monte-Carlo simulations for the system performance in Rayleigh fading channels are given in this paper. We show that the performance of uniform power allocation is much worse in case of fading channels than in static channels. Almost there is no gain of using uniform random power over fixed power in terms of average probability of outage. However, uniform random power may considerably reduce the total power consumption at small degradation of the average performance. This can be critical feature in energy constrained networks.