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Turbo Coding with Equalization in WCDMA Downlink

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In this paper, the performance of turbo coding in WCDMA downlink is considered in conjunction with receivers using two adaptive channel equalizers. Bit error and frame error rates are compared to the performance of the conventional Rake receiver. Special consideration is given to the cases with two receive antennas, the efficiency of the channel interleaver, the number of iterations in decoding, the performance with various numbers of users, the influence of mobile receiver velocity as well as to the effect of power control. The simulation results show that turbo coding, combined with power control and channel equalizers is a very efficient way to implement reliable data transmissions in WCDMA downlink. The results in the paper also verify that the adaptive channel equalizers is a very promising technique to improve the receiver performance and increase the user capacity.

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Drajic, D., Hooli, K. & Juntti, M. Turbo Coding with Equalization in WCDMA Downlink. Wireless Personal Communications 28, 259–276 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:WIRE.0000033599.08396.ef

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