• DocumentCode
    865307
  • Title

    Performance of EVM and PCDE quality metrics in WCDMA downlink

  • Author

    Väänänen, O. ; Vankka, J. ; Halonen, K.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Commun. Eng., Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Finland
  • Volume
    38
  • Issue
    22
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    10/24/2002 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1386
  • Lastpage
    1387
  • Abstract
    In a WCDMA system, the downlink signal the base station transmits is designed to fulfil the specifications set in the 3GPP standard. Here, the performance of the error vector magnitude (EVM) and peak code domain error (PCDE) quality metrics is impugned. It is shown that the limits of EVM and PCDE do not guarantee that the user will experience an adequate signal-to-noise ratio.
  • Keywords
    cellular radio; code division multiple access; radio links; 3GPP standard; EVM; PCDE; W-CDMA downlink; error vector magnitude; peak code domain error; quality metrics; signal-to-noise ratio; wideband code division multiple access;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20020925
  • Filename
    1047115