Variable rate adaptive modulation for DS-CDMA

An adaptive coding scheme is introduced for a discrete sequence code-division multiple-access system. The system uses noncoherent M-ary orthogonal modulation with RAKE receiver and power control. Both a fast fading channel and a combined fast fading, shadowing and power control channel are considered. Analytical bounds and simulations are done to evaluate the performance of the system. It is found that there is significant improvement in the average throughput and the bit-error-rate performance in the adaptive coding scheme. The amount of improvement drops with the increase of diversity branches used. More importantly, it is found that adaptive coding scheme is relatively robust to shadowing, while fix-rate codes are ineffective in the shadowing environment. Finally, adaptive coding scheme is found to be robust to mobile speed, feedback delay, and finite interleaving depth.