Title :
CDMA forward link capacity and coverage in a multipath fading channel
Author :
Jalloul, Louay ; Rohani, Kamyar
Author_Institution :
Fort Worth Res. Lab., Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents an analysis of the CDMA forward link capacity and coverage in a multipath fading channel for slow moving users. Previous analysis of CDMA capacity ignored several factors that affect the forward link performance. The analysis presented in this paper takes into account short term fading, lognormal shadowing, frame error rate (FER) requirement, outage, power allocation, soft handoff, the number of multipaths and the number of required RAKE fingers. Finally, both Rayleigh and Rician fading are considered
Keywords :
Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; cellular radio; channel capacity; code division multiple access; fading; land mobile radio; multipath channels; CDMA; RAKE fingers; Rayleigh fading; Rician fading; cellular radio; coverage analysis; forward link capacity; frame error rate; lognormal shadowing; multipath fading channel; outage; power allocation; short term fading; slow moving users; soft handoff; AWGN channels; Error analysis; Fading; Fingers; Multiaccess communication; Power system modeling; Propagation losses; Random variables; Rayleigh channels; Shadow mapping;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference, 1997, IEEE 47th
Conference_Location :
Phoenix, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3659-3
DOI :
10.1109/VETEC.1997.605504
