Full-length non-linear binary sequences with Zero Correlation Zone for multiuser communications

The research on new sets of sequences that can be applied as spreading codes in multiple user communications is still an active area, even if this topic has been extensively investigated since long time. In fact, new communication paradigms like dense and decentralized wireless networks, where there is no central controller to assign the resources to the nodes, are revamping the interest on finding large sets of sequences providing adequate correlation properties to support a big number of nodes, in potentially hostile channels. This paper focuses on the Zero Correlation Zone (ZCZ) property exhibited by a family of nonlinear binary sequences featuring a great cardinality of their set, and good security-related features, and provides evidence of their suitability to multiuser communications, in channels affected by multipath.