A Corrupt Packet Detection Mechanism for WCDMA Receivers

Author

Van Der Werf, Steven M. ; Mei, Jing Xian ; Chung, Kah-Seng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Curtin Univ. of Technol., Perth, WA

fYear

2006

fDate

Aug. 31 2006-Sept. 1 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents a mechanism for a corrupt packet detection (CPD) scheme that can be used in the physical layer of a WCDMA system to distinguish whether a timeslot is occupied by a signal or not. Using the proposed scheme, it permits the physical layer to indicate to the MAC layer the status of the timeslot; whether a packet has been received, either correctly, or been corrupted, or if there was no signal transmitted during that particular timeslot. This type of status information is vital for certain types of MAC protocols to operate efficiently and fairly in terms of resource allocation of the shared medium. The simulation is carried out using a WCDMA system with N concurrent code channels shared with M mobile terminals, each with its own channelization code

Keywords

access protocols; broadband networks; channel coding; code division multiple access; packet radio networks; radio receivers; resource allocation; CPD mechanism; MAC protocol; WCDMA receivers; concurrent code channel; corrupt packet detection; medium access control; mobile terminal; resource allocation; wideband code division multiple access; Access protocols; Communications technology; Cyclic redundancy check; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Physical layer; Resource management; Speech; Time division multiple access; Traffic control; WCDMA receiver; channelization code; corrupt packet detection; decision confidence; timeslot status;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2006. APCC '06. Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Busan

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0573-4

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0574-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.2006.255830

Filename

4023135