Pre-RAKE Diversity Combination for Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Mobile Communications Systems

Riaz ESMAILZADEH  Masao NAKAGAWA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E76-B   No.8   pp.1008-1015
Publication Date: 1993/08/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications)
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Keyword: 
Rake,  Pre-Rake,  spread spectrum transmission in fading channels,  direct sequence spread spectrum,  time division duplex,  frequency division duplex,  

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Summary: 
A new method of multipath diversity combination is proposed for Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DS-SS) mobile communications. In this method, the transmitted signal from the base staion is the sum of a number of the same spread signal, each one delayed and scaled according to the delay and the strength of the multipaths of the transmission channel. As a result the received signal at the mobile unit will already be a Rake combination of the multipath signals. This new method is called Pre-Rake diversity combination because the Rake diversity combination process is performed before transmission By this method the size and complexity of the mobile unit can be minimized, and the unit is made as simple as a non-combining single path receiver. A theoretical examination of the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and the Bit Error Rate (BER) results for the traditional Rake and the Pre-Rake combiners as well as computer simulations show that the performance of the Pre-Rake combiner is equivalent to that of the Rake combiner.