Performance of DS-CDMA in correlated Rayleigh-fading channel with RAKE combining

Author

Li, Y. ; Tjhung, T.T. ; Adachi, F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

785

Abstract

We derive a closed form formula of the joint probability density function (p.d.f) of correlated Rayleigh random variables with arbitrary correlation coefficients. Using this, we analyze the BER performance of a DS-CDMA system with RAKE combing in a correlated Rayleigh fading channel. We find that correlation in multipaths has a deleterious effect on the receiver bit error rate (BER) performance

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; code division multiple access; correlation methods; diversity reception; error statistics; multipath channels; multiuser channels; radio receivers; random processes; spread spectrum communication; BER performance; DS-CDMA; PDF; RAKE combining; bit error rate; closed form formula; correlated Rayleigh random variables; correlated Rayleigh-fading channel; correlation coefficients; diversity reception; joint probability density function; multipath channel; receiver; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Covariance matrix; Diversity reception; Fading; Multiaccess communication; Performance analysis; Probability density function; RAKE receivers; Rayleigh channels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference Proceedings, 2000. VTC 2000-Spring Tokyo. 2000 IEEE 51st

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5718-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2000.851232

Filename

851232