• DocumentCode
    3311616
  • Title

    A novel time spread mechanism to combat flat fading

  • Author

    Davies, E.T.J. ; Linde, L.P.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Pretoria Univ., South Africa
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    9-10 Sep 1997
  • Firstpage
    59
  • Lastpage
    62
  • Abstract
    In this paper, a novel time spreading (TS) method is introduced for combating the deleterious effects of frequency non-selective (flat) fading channels. It is shown how this new spreading technique is able to reconcile two conflicting objectives which were identified in Wornell (1996), where a different time-spreading mechanism was introduced. The proposed technique provides significant performance gains over conventional quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) modulation under certain fading channel conditions
  • Keywords
    fading; interference suppression; time-domain analysis; time-varying channels; flat fading; frequency nonselective fading channels; performance gains; time spread mechanism; AWGN; Bandwidth; Buffer storage; Correlators; Fading; Modems; Quadrature phase shift keying; Signal sampling; Spread spectrum communication; Transmitters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications and Signal Processing, 1997. COMSIG '97., Proceedings of the 1997 South African Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Grahamstown
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-4173-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/COMSIG.1997.629982
  • Filename
    629982