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DS-CDMA satellite diversity reception for personal satellite communication: Downlink performance analysisThe downlink of a satellite-mobile personal communication system employing power-controlled Direct Sequence Code Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA) and exploiting satellite-diversity is analyzed and its performance compared with a more traditional communication system utilizing single satellite reception. The analytical model developed has been thoroughly validated by means of extensive Monte Carlo computer simulations. It is shown how the capacity gain provided by diversity reception shrinks considerably in the presence of increasing traffic or in the case of light shadowing conditions. Moreover, the quantitative results tend to indicate that to combat system capacity reduction due to intra-system interference, no more than two satellites shall be active over the same region. To achieve higher system capacity, differently from terrestrial cellular systems, Multi-User Detection (MUD) techniques are likely to be required in the mobile user terminal, thus considerably increasing its complexity.
Document ID
19960022530
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
DeGaudenzi, Riccardo
(European Space Agency. European Space Research and Technology Center, ESTEC Noordwijk, Netherlands)
Giannetti, Filippo
(Pisa Univ. Italy)
Date Acquired
August 17, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1995
Publication Information
Publication: Proceedings of the Fourth International Mobile Satellite Conference (IMSC 1995)
Subject Category
Communications And Radar
Accession Number
96N25484
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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