Title : 
Performance comparison of alternative wideband CDMA systems
         
        
            Author : 
Jalali, Ahmad ; Gutierrez, Alberto
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Nortel Wireless Networks, Richardson, TX, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper compares the forward link performance of a direct spread CDMA system with a spreading bandwidth of 3.6864 MHz and a multicarrier system consisting of 3 carriers each with spreading bandwidth of 1.2288 MHz. These systems are under consideration for the forward link of the next generation CDMA cellular/PCS systems. This paper summarizes performance comparison results of the two systems for a data rate of 9.6 kbps with the IMT-2000 vehicular and pedestrian channel models. Performance results are given for speeds of 3 and 30 km/h. The results indicate that the two systems have comparable performance for the above data rate and the IMT-2000 channel models
         
        
            Keywords : 
cellular radio; code division multiple access; land mobile radio; multipath channels; personal communication networks; pseudonoise codes; radio links; spread spectrum communication; 1.2288 MHz; 3 km/h; 3.6864 MHz; 30 km/h; 9.6 kbit/s; CDMA cellular/PCS systems; DS-CDMA; IMT-2000 channel models; data rate; direct spread CDMA system; forward link performance; multicarrier system; multipath; pedestrian channel model; performance comparison; performance results; spreading bandwidth; vehicular channel model; wideband CDMA systems; Bandwidth; Frequency diversity; Modulation coding; Multiaccess communication; Multicarrier code division multiple access; Power control; Power system modeling; Quality of service; Wideband; Wireless networks;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Communications, 1998. ICC 98. Conference Record. 1998 IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Atlanta, GA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-4788-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICC.1998.682582