Performance Evaluation of DS/CDMA Communications Systems Modulated with π/2-Shift BPSK over Multipath Rayleigh Fading Channels

M. M. Asadullah GALIB  Takaya YAMAZATO  Masaaki KATAYAMA  Akira OGAWA  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E81-A    No.11    pp.2304-2310
Publication Date: 1998/11/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications)
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π/2-shift BPSK,  DS/SS/CDMA,  soft/hard-limiter,  out-of-band power,  spectral efficiency,  RAKE receiver,  

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Summary: 
In mobile communications, power is a very important factor and nonlinear amplification of power amplifiers cannot be avoided due to their high power efficiency. This article presents the performance of π/2-shift BPSK modulation scheme used in DS/SS/CDMA wireless communications over multipath Rayleigh fading channel and compares the performance with the performance of conventional BPSK and offset QPSK CDMA systems. The performance parameters: Out-of-Band power, average Bit Error Rate (BER) and Spectral Efficiency have been evaluated. In order to obtain improved performance on fading channels, a RAKE receiver has been employed. Finally it is shown that π/2-shift BPSK outperforms conventional BPSK and offset QPSK in the presence of nonlinear amplification.