Title : 
Capacity estimation of a SIR-based power-controlled cellular CDMA system with base station diversity in a multipath fading environment
         
        
            Author : 
Téllez-Labao, C. ; Romero-Jerez, J.M. ; Estrella, A. Díaz
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Tecnologia Electronica, Malaga Univ., Spain
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This article estimates the reverse link capacity of an SIR-based power-controlled code-division multiple access system in a multiple cells environment. The effect of multipath fading on the interference statistics is explicitly accounted for and mobiles are assumed to connect to a base station based on minimum attenuation criterion.
         
        
            Keywords : 
cellular radio; channel capacity; code division multiple access; electromagnetic wave absorption; fading channels; multipath channels; multiuser channels; power control; radiofrequency interference; spread spectrum communication; telecommunication control; SIR-based power-controlled system; base station diversity; cellular CDMA system; code-division multiple access system; direct sequence BPSK; interference statistics; minimum attenuation criterion; multipath fading; reverse link capacity estimation; Attenuation; Base stations; Fading; Interference; Multiaccess communication; Power control; Power system modeling; Random variables; Shadow mapping; Statistics;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Communications Letters, IEEE
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/LCOMM.2002.801333