Application of channel sounding to CDMA PCS design at 1900 MHz

Author

Jorgensen, Jeffrey ; Kostanic, Ivica ; Foose, William

Author_Institution

TEC Cellular Inc., West Melbourne, FL, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1997

fDate

4-7 May 1997

Firstpage

1937

Abstract

The RAKE receiver used in PCS IS-95 CDMA communication systems has the ability to coherently combine and demodulate individually received multipath components. In order to optimize the settings of the RAKE receiver (i.e. RAKE search window), knowledge of the multipath delay spread characteristics in the area of receiver operation is required. This paper documents analysis of measured multipath characteristics in the dense urban, urban, suburban and rural areas in and around a major metropolitan city. Measured power delay profiles are characterized in terms of RMS delay spread, and number of resolvable multipath components

Keywords

UHF radio propagation; cellular radio; code division multiple access; delays; land mobile radio; multipath channels; personal communication networks; radio receivers; 1900 MHz; CDMA; IS-95 communication systems; PCS design; RAKE receiver; RAKE search window; RMS delay spread; channel sounding; land mobile propagation channel; multipath components; multipath delay spread characteristics; power delay profiles; rural areas; suburban areas; urban areas; Area measurement; Cities and towns; Delay; Fading; Multiaccess communication; Multipath channels; Personal communication networks; Power measurement; RAKE receivers; Text analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1997, IEEE 47th

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3659-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1997.605896

Filename

605896