Performance analysis of coherent DS-CDMA systems in a Nakagami fading channel with arbitrary parameters

Author

Efthymoglou, George P. ; Aalo, Valentine A. ; Helmken, Henry

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL, USA

Volume

46

Issue

2

fYear

1997

fDate

5/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

289

Lastpage

297

Abstract

A new expression for the bit error rate (BER) of an asynchronous direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) system with coherent BPSK demodulation in a multipath Nakagami (1960) fading channel is derived. The analysis assumes an arbitrary number of independent, but nonidentical resolvable paths combined by the RAKE receiver. The results obtained show that in such systems, the effect of nonidentical fading on system performance cannot be ignored

Keywords

code division multiple access; coding errors; demodulation; error statistics; fading; land mobile radio; multipath channels; phase shift keying; pseudonoise codes; radio receivers; radiowave propagation; spread spectrum communication; BER; RAKE receiver; asynchronous direct sequence code division multiple access; bit error rate; channel parameters; coherent BPSK demodulation; coherent DS-CDMA systems; mobile channel; multipath Nakagami fading channel; multipath propagation; nonidentical fading; nonidentical resolvable paths; performance analysis; system performance; AWGN; Bit error rate; Demodulation; Diversity reception; Fading; Multiaccess communication; Multipath channels; Performance analysis; Signal resolution; Spread spectrum communication;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9545

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/25.580767

Filename

580767