Abstract: A device for generating quasi-orthogonal codes which allow the minimum interference with orthogonal codes in a mobile communication system using the orthogonal codes. The device includes a first spreader for spreading at least one input signal with quasi-orthogonal codes, a second spreader for spreading another input signal with Walsh codes, and a PN (Pseudo-Noise) spreader for complex-spreading output signals of the first and second spreaders with PN sequences. The quasi-orthogonal codes are characterized in that a partial correlation value with the Walsh codes does not exceed a lowest partial correlation limit value.

Abstract: A code set generating method in a mobile communications system having Nf frequency channels and Np phase channels. In the method, a code length Nc is obtained by Nf×Np, a minimum distance Nd between codewords in a code set and frequency diversity Nfd are determined, code sets are detected according to Nc, Nd, and Nfd, a code set is selected, which shows such a Hamming distance distribution among code words that minimizes demodulation errors from the detected code sets, and the code set is stored in a mapping table of a demodulator.