Title : 
BER performance of 2D-RAKE receivers in DS-CDMA over frequency-selective, slow Rayleigh fading channels
         
        
            Author : 
Vijayan, Logeshwaran ; Roberts, James
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Kansas Univ., Lawrence, KS, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this letter, we extend the method that has been proposed in the literature for calculating the bit error probability of two-dimensional (2D) RAKE receivers in asynchronous direct sequence code-division multiple access (DS-CDMA) over flat, slow Rayleigh fading channels to the case of frequency-selective, slow Rayleigh fading channels. We also compute and plot the lower bound on the performance that can be achieved in the above system.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Rayleigh channels; cellular radio; code division multiple access; error statistics; radio receivers; spread spectrum communication; 2D-RAKE receivers; BER performance; DS-CDMA; Rayleigh fading channels; asynchronous direct sequence code-division multiple access; bit error probability; cellular radio; frequency-selective channels; lower bound; slow fading channels; Antenna arrays; Base stations; Bit error rate; Diversity reception; Fading; Frequency; Multiaccess communication; Multipath channels; Rayleigh channels; Receiving antennas;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Communications Letters, IEEE
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/LCOMM.2002.804239