Performance comparison of different spread-spectrum signaling schemes for cellular mobile radio networks

Different spread-spectrum signaling schemes in a cellular mobile radio network are compared in terms of throughput and packet error probability. Bounds on the bit and packet error probabilities are derived for data modulation schemes with binary phase shift keying with noncoherent demodulation. Reed-Solomon coding is employed for error-correction purposes. In all cases, the effect of varying interference power (according to some inverse power of distance) of the desired signal, of the interfering signals, and of Rayleigh nonselective channel fading is accurately taken into account. The throughput in the mobile-to-base transmission mode is evaluated for the above data modulation, demodulation, and forward-error-control coding schemes. The comparison shows that, under the varying interference power model, the frequency-hopped scheme performs best among all schemes with the same bandwidth. Power control mechanisms are required to improve the performance of direct-sequence systems