{"title":"The effect of path diversity (RAKE) on link reliability in CDMA cellular systems-a realistic assessment of system capacity","authors":"J. S. Lee, L. Miller","doi":"10.1109/PIMRC.1996.568459","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The reliability of a CDMA cellular system reverse link is formulated as the probability that the link SNR is above the required threshold, accounting for multiple users, multipath receptions, signal and multipath fading, and Rake multipath diversity processing. Calculations of reliability show the gains obtained through RAKE processing, and the necessity of this processing when multipaths exist. It is shown that when multipath interference and link reliability requirements are accounted for, the number of CDMA users can be much smaller than that predicted using median SNR values.","PeriodicalId":206655,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of PIMRC '96 - 7th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Communications","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1996-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of PIMRC '96 - 7th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Communications","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.1996.568459","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The reliability of a CDMA cellular system reverse link is formulated as the probability that the link SNR is above the required threshold, accounting for multiple users, multipath receptions, signal and multipath fading, and Rake multipath diversity processing. Calculations of reliability show the gains obtained through RAKE processing, and the necessity of this processing when multipaths exist. It is shown that when multipath interference and link reliability requirements are accounted for, the number of CDMA users can be much smaller than that predicted using median SNR values.