Power control leased on bit error rate (BER) measurements

Author

Kumar, P. Sarath ; Yates, Roy D. ; Holtzman, Jack

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

35010

Firstpage

617

Abstract

We consider power control for the reverse link of a DS/CDMA system where received powers are to be controlled to achieve specified BERs for individual users, not necessarily the same. Our emphasis is to work with bit error rates (BERs), which are more readily measurable than the signal to interference ratios (SIRs), which received a lot of attention in the literature. The power control algorithm that we propose works without knowledge of the relationship between the BER and the SIR. The convergence of this algorithm is shown for a general class of expressions for the BER encountered in digital communications

Keywords

code division multiple access; coding errors; convergence of numerical methods; digital radio; error statistics; power control; pseudonoise codes; radio links; spread spectrum communication; telecommunication control; BER measurements; DS/CDMA system; bit error rate measurements; convergence; digital communications; power control algorithm; received power control; reverse link; signal to interference ratios; Bit error rate; Control systems; Convergence; Digital communication; Fading; Interference; Multiaccess communication; Narrowband; Power control; Power measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 1995. MILCOM '95, Conference Record, IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2489-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1995.483540

Filename

483540