Title :
Effects of chip rate on selective RAKE combining
Author :
Win, Moe Z. ; Chrisikos, George ; Sollenberger, Nelson R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Wireless Syst. Res., AT&T Lab.-Res., Red Bank, NJ, USA
fDate :
7/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The focus of this paper is to characterize the performance of a RAKE receiver tracking the L strongest multipath components and to quantify the effects of the chip rate on spread spectrum systems operating in dense multipath frequency-selective fading environments. Analytical expressions for the symbol error probability are derived in terms of the chip rate, multipath spread of the channel and an arbitrary number of combined paths.
Keywords :
diversity reception; error statistics; fading channels; multipath channels; radio receivers; spread spectrum communication; RAKE receiver; chip rate effects; combined paths; frequency-selective fading environments; multipath spread; selective RAKE combining; spread spectrum systems; strongest multipath components; symbol error probability; Delay lines; Diversity reception; Error probability; Fading; Frequency; Multiaccess communication; Multipath channels; Signal to noise ratio; Spread spectrum communication; Wireless communication;
Journal_Title :
Communications Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4234.852926
