Abstract: The invention relates to digital transmissions. It particularly relates to a method of transmitting data from a transmitter to a receiver using multi-carrier Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) for accessing a transmission system. The transmitted data are OFDM modulated using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) after being spread with a set of predefined spreading sequences of consecutive chips, wherein two successive chips of the predefined sequences are transmitted on non-successive carriers and in non-successive time intervals.

Abstract: The invention relates to digital transmission. It particularly relates to a method of transmitting data using multi-carrier Code-division Multiple Access (CDMA) for accessing a transmission system. The method comprises a step of modulating the data to be transmitted using Orthogonal Frequency-division Multiplexing (OFDM) for producing OFDM modulated data symbols and a step of spreading the OFDM modulated data symbols with spreading codes including a set of predefined sequences, wherein the sequences are predefined so that they satisfy predetermined auto-correlation and/or cross-correlation criteria within a region around the zero-time offset of the correlation function, defined as an interference Free Window (IFW).