• DocumentCode
    2386202
  • Title

    On capacity and spreading in CDMA systems

  • Author

    Motani, Mehul ; Veeravalli, Venugopal V. ; Heegard, Chris

  • Author_Institution
    Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    131
  • Abstract
    The problem of maximizing a weighted linear combination of the rates of users in a multiuser synchronous CDMA system is considered. We find that although spreading decreases capacity, nontrivial low rate coding can help to mitigate this loss
  • Keywords
    AWGN channels; channel capacity; code division multiple access; encoding; multiuser channels; spread spectrum communication; AWGN channel; additive white Gaussian noise channel; information theory; multiuser capacity regions; multiuser synchronous CDMA system; nontrivial low rate coding; spread spectrum system; system capacity; system spreading; weighted linear rate combination; AWGN; Additive white noise; Bandwidth; Code division multiplexing; Communication systems; Fourier transforms; Gaussian noise; Measurement; Multiaccess communication; Spread spectrum communication;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Sorrento
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5857-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.2000.866423
  • Filename
    866423