Convolutionally coded multi-antenna transmission in WCDMA over frequencyselective Rayleigh fading channel

Author

Kunnari, Esa ; Tujkovic, Djordje

Author_Institution

Centre for Wireless Commun., Oulu Univ., Finland

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

127

Abstract

The convolutionally coded multi-antenna transmission technique proposed in Ban et al., (1997), for direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems is studied in a wideband CDMA (WCDMA) system. The performance of the considered scheme operating over frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channels is evaluated by analysis and computer simulations. The multi-antenna transmission scheme is shown to provide performance improvement over single-antenna transmission when the fading is slow and the number of users is low. However, at high system loads the performance is pronouncedly limited due to additional interference between the antennas

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; channel coding; code division multiple access; convolutional codes; diversity reception; mobile radio; time-varying channels; Rayleigh fading channel; WCDMA; antenna interference; convolutional coding; direct sequence code division multiple access; frequency-selective channel; mobile radio channel; multi-antenna transmission; performance; slow fading; system loads; time-varying channel; wideband CDMA; Computer simulation; Convolutional codes; Direct-sequence code-division multiple access; Fading; Frequency; Interference; Multiaccess communication; Performance analysis; Rayleigh channels; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Spring. IEEE VTS 53rd

Conference_Location

Rhodes

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6728-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2001.945304

Filename

945304