A More Accurate Analysis of Interference for Rake Combining on DS-CDMA Forward Link in Mobile Radio

Kaibin HUANG
Fumiyuki ADACHI
Yong Huat CHEW

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E88-B    No.2    pp.654-663
Publication Date: 2005/02/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.2.654
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Wireless Communication Technologies
Keyword: 
mobile radio,  Rake receiver,  DS-CDMA,  multipath fading channel,  multiple-access-interference,  

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Summary: 
In this paper, we improve the performance analysis of the Rake receiver for the DS-CDMA forward link using long random spreading sequences (RSS's) by more accurately evaluating the correlation between the various interference terms. We also extend the analysis to the case of short (periodic) RSS. The accuracy of the expressions obtained in our analysis is verified by computer simulation. We show that for a given normalized spreading factor, the bit error rate (BER) performance of the Rake receiver is the same for BPSK and QPSK data modulation. We also show that when the channel delay spread is smaller than a data symbol duration, the CDMA receiver has similar BER performance for long and short RSS's. However, for large delay spread, the employment of short RSS's may result in severe performance degradation.