CDMA forward link capacity and coverage in a multipath fading channel

Author

Jalloul, Louay ; Rohani, Kamyar

Author_Institution

Fort Worth Res. Lab., Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group, Fort Worth, TX, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1997

fDate

4-7 May 1997

Firstpage

1440

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the CDMA forward link capacity and coverage in a multipath fading channel for slow moving users. Previous analysis of CDMA capacity ignored several factors that affect the forward link performance. The analysis presented in this paper takes into account short term fading, lognormal shadowing, frame error rate (FER) requirement, outage, power allocation, soft handoff, the number of multipaths and the number of required RAKE fingers. Finally, both Rayleigh and Rician fading are considered

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; cellular radio; channel capacity; code division multiple access; fading; land mobile radio; multipath channels; CDMA; RAKE fingers; Rayleigh fading; Rician fading; cellular radio; coverage analysis; forward link capacity; frame error rate; lognormal shadowing; multipath fading channel; outage; power allocation; short term fading; slow moving users; soft handoff; AWGN channels; Error analysis; Fading; Fingers; Multiaccess communication; Power system modeling; Propagation losses; Random variables; Rayleigh channels; Shadow mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1997, IEEE 47th

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3659-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1997.605504

Filename

605504