Capacity evaluation of transmit beamforming CDMA system with FER prediction method

Author

Ahn, Cheol Yong ; Choi, Young-Kwan ; Han, Jin Kyu ; Kim, Dong Ku

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

1

fYear

2003

Firstpage

89

Abstract

The maximum SINR transmission (MST) algorithm for the forward link beamforming jointly with power control and RAKE combining have shown reduction of the total transmit power compared to maximum ratio transmission (MRT) scheme (Y.K. Choi, et al., 2002). In this paper, the user capacity and the outage performance of the transmit beamforming system according to the various number of antennas on various fading channels are evaluated for both MST and MRT schemes. In order to evaluate capacity, link level and system level simulation are jointly conducted by using FER prediction table that has been obtained from various fading channels. The FER prediction approach enables us to define the outage probability as P(FER>target FER) and study the effects of velocity of mobiles, spatial correlation of the fading channel, and the outer loop power control. The results show that the MST beamforming scheme can considerably increase the user capacity compared to the MRT scheme.

Keywords

antenna arrays; cellular radio; code division multiple access; error statistics; fading channels; prediction theory; radiofrequency interference; transmitting antennas; FER prediction method; RAKE; antennas; capacity evaluation; fading channels; forward link beamforming; link level; maximum SINR transmission system; maximum ratio transmission scheme; power control; system level simulation; transmit beamforming CDMA system; user capacity; Array signal processing; Base stations; Downlink; Fading; Interference; Multiaccess communication; Power control; Prediction methods; Signal to noise ratio; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2003. VTC 2003-Spring. The 57th IEEE Semiannual

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7757-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2003.1207508

Filename

1207508