Demand assignment control in a satellite switched CDMA network

The Satellite Switched Code Division Multiple Access (SS/CDMA) is a system proposed for geostationary satellite fixed service communications and provides both multiple access and switching to a multibeam satellite. Multiple access is achieved by space, frequency and code division while the switching function is based on code division methods. In this article, we present an overview of the system architecture, focus on the demand assignment control mechanism and describe the call control operation. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Wideband CDMA system for personal radio communications

This article describes a wideband spread code-division multiple access (W-CDMA) system for high-capacity and high-quality personal radio communication. This system has been authorized as an EIA/TIA Interim Standard IS-665, T1P1 Trial Use Standard J-STD-015, and ITU-R Recommendation M 1073. The system uses wideband spreading to accomplish good interference immunity, high-quality speech, and high-speed data transmission. The system uses coherent detection (CD) and an interference canceller system (ICS) to enhance the capacity. The CD and ICS use continuous pilot signals in the forward/reverse links to estimate the propagation path parameters. PN and Hadamard sequences are used as the spreading code for minimal mutual interference between traffic and pilot/sync/paging channels. A robust 32 kb/s waveform speech coder, ITU-T COM101+, has been developed to achieve toll-quality speech in the radio environment. This system provides up to 128 voice channels per cell and data transmission up to 64 kb/s by 5 MHz spreading. Unification of low- and high-mobility applications and reduced complexity of system and hardware configurations are accomplished     

A frequency scanning satellite system for land mobile communications

A frequency scanning system for mobile applications has been assessed for a European mission at L-band. Feasibility evaluations, electrical design and analysis have been performed for both the antenna and the entire repeater. Efforts have also been made to solve accommodation, thermal and mechanical problems, so as to demonstrate the actual feasibility of the frequency scanning concept in user-oriented applications. The very promising results obtained are presented in this paper.     

A digital transmission system for global maritime satellite communications

A digital transmission system for global maritime satellite communications has been designed, and experimental communications equipment has been developed, taking account of its potential application to the INMARSAT system where analog modulation is currently used for telephone signal transmission. This paper discusses possible digital technologies to realize an efficient digital transmission system, and presents a concept for the designed system. The paper also describes the hardware configuration and the performance characteristics of the experimental equipment.     

A shipborne fading reduction antenna system for maritime satellite communications

Multipath fading due to reflected waves from a sea surface is serious in maritime satellite communications. A shipborne antenna system which reduces the fading by using the cross-polarized component of the reflected waves is presented.     

A flexible receiver for CDMA multiuser communications

Code division multiple access (CDMA) capacity is limited by interference amongst users. The effect of this interference on receiver outputs depends on the users' signatures and the actual detector used in the receiver. A matched filter receiver is particularly sensitive to interference, whereas an optimum multiuser receiver is less sensitive but infeasible due to its exponential complexity. We propose a receiver structure that trades detection performance for reduced complexity. It can interpolate between the performances and complexities of these two receivers. Our detector uses a tree structure, and some of its special cases are the decision feedback detector, the decorrelating detector, and the optimal linear detector. We show that at equal complexity levels, a particular implementation of our detector outperforms these detectors. We also show that our approach can be used with a minimum-mean-square-error design criterion and coded CDMA transmission     

一种增强的GEO卫星CDMA通信系统随机接入方式

本文提出了一种适用于GEO卫星CDMA移动通信系统的随机接入方式。该方式参考了S-UMTS中的随机接入方式设计,扩展了其接入帧和接入时隙的长度,并提出了一种新颖的用户随机接入请求的发送策略。通过接入时隙长度的扩展,增大了接入前缀码的个数和前缀的长度,提高了接入消息的扩频增益,从而提高了用户接入的首次捕获概率和接入消息的正确解码概率,降低用户的接入功率,并有效削弱功率攀升问题给系统容量造成的影响。增加了保护间隔的长度,以应对GEO卫星环境下用户之间接入的大时延差问题。本文提出的用户随机接入请求发送策略,有效改善了用户的接入时间性能。     

Passive optical fast frequency-hop CDMA communications system

This paper proposes an all-fiber fast optical frequency-hop code division multiple access (FFH-CDMA) for high-bandwidth communications. The system does not require an optical frequency synthesizer allowing high communication bit rates. Encoding and decoding are passively achieved by Bragg gratings, Multiple Bragg gratings replace a frequency synthesizer, achieving a hopping rate in tens of GHz. A main lobe sine apodization can be used in writing the gratings to enhance the system capacity and the spectrum efficiency. All network users can use the same tunable encoder/decoder design. The simultaneous utilization of the time and frequency domains offers notable flexibility in code selection. Simulations show that the encoder efficiently performs the FFH spread spectrum signal generation and that the receiver easily extracts the desired signal from a received signal for several multiple access interference scenarios. We measure the system performance in terms of bit error rate, as well as auto-to cross-correlation contrast. A transmission rate of 500 Mb/s per user is supported in a system with up to 30 simultaneous users at 10^-9 bit error rate. We compare FFH-CDMA to several direct sequence-CDMA systems in terms of bit error rate versus the number of simultaneous users. We show that an optical FFH-CDMA system requires new design criteria for code families, as optical device technology differs significantly from that of radio frequency communications     

A new multistage detector for synchronous CDMA communications

In this paper, we develop a new multistage detector to approach the optimal solution of the detection problem in a synchronous code division multiple access (CDMA) system. The transformation modifies the diagonal elements of the Hessian matrix of the quadratic likelihood function and brings the continuous minimum of the transformed function as close to the optimal solution as possible. The computational complexity is essentially linear with the number of users, except that a few computations of a quadratic function are needed     

Performance of power control method for CDMA radio communications system

Power control is used to solve the 'near-far' problem which arises in a spread spectrum system using direct sequence code-division multiple access (CDMA). A method to estimate the signal-to-interference ratio to be used for power control is proposed and the difference in the signal-to-interference ratio between the set power control threshold and the average value actually received at the antenna over a fading multipath channel is presented.<>     

3.5GHz频段固定无线接入系统与固定卫星业务的兼容性分析

根据信息产业部无线电管理局信部无(2000)88号文件要求,3400-3430MHz/3500-3530MHz的2×30MHz的频率拟供FDD方式中的高速无线接入使用.经过技术试验及电磁兼容分析,若证明3.5FGHz频段固定无线接入系统(FWA)系统与卫星C扩展频段有频率共用之可能,并确定了共用条件后,可根据FWA系统的技术发展与市场需求,研究和确定FWA系统如何在3400-3600MHz频段内实现与卫星系统的频率公用.若证明两者之间不可兼容,或为避免相互干扰,FWA系统将于2005年底前退出3400-3600MHz频段.本文将对FWA系统与卫星固定业务的兼容性进行分析.     

THE CAPACITY CALCULATION FOR CDMA MOBILE SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

On the basis of considering downlink power flux density limit, shadowing effect frequency reuse in different systems and adjoining beams of same system, adopting voice activity and polarization isolation techniques, the capacity of CDMA mobile satellite communication system at different downlink power flux density limit modes, channel spread bandwidth and mobile user's quality factor of receiving system(G/T) are analysed and calculated, and compared with the ones of TDMA and FDMA. The conclusions are given at the end of this paper.     

A regenerative payload for satellite multimedia communications

We describe a large-capacity on-board processing payload, designed for next generation satellite systems. It provides broadband multimedia services to mobile and fixed users, and assigns data rates ranging from a few Kbps up to 2 Mbps for an aggregate traffic capacity of about 9 Gbps. This regenerative payload is the key element of the EuroSkyWay communication system     

A novel modulation for mobile satellite communications

It is a challenging problem to design a high performance modulation for mobile satellite communications due to the limited power and bandwidth resource. The paper improves Feher patented Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (FQPSK) by redefining the waveform. The novel FQPSK, with constant envelope, can be used to improve the power efficiency and frequency efficiency of mobile satellite communication. The study shows that the improved FQPSK outperforms conventional FQPSK over AWGN and is immune to the non-linearity of high power amplifier. At last, the impact of flat fading and multi-path fading of channel on the BER performance of improved modulation is analyzed.     

Erlang capacity of ATM-based CDMA satellite system

The capacity and throughput of an ATM-based CDMA system offering flexible access rates on demand are analysed. Extending the existing analysis of traffic capacity of a power-controlled CDMA cellular system, it is shown that offering multiple access rates may result in higher throughput efficiency. An example given of a satellite system shows that the gain in capacity may be some 10%     

Multicarrier CDMA overlay for ultra-wideband communications

In this letter, the performance of multicarrier code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems is studied in the presence of narrowband interference for future ultra-wideband (UWB) communications. A Nakagami fading channel is assumed, and notch filters along with diversity techniques are used in the multicarrier CDMA receiver. A complete performance analysis of error probability is given. It is shown that when the number of subcarriers jammed by narrowband interference is small, the multicarrier receiver without notch filters can work well, due to the gain of frequency diversity from nonjammed subcarriers. On the other hand, when the number of subcarriers jammed by the narrowband interference is large, using notch filters can improve the multicarrier system performance significantly.     

Space-time optimum combining for CDMA communications

In this paper it is shown how spatial and temporal processing can be combined to increase the capacity of CDMA-based wireless communications systems. Degrees of freedom provided by space-time processing can be exploited to combat both fading and co-channel interference (the near-far effect). Specifically, we formulate and study the following methods: (1) space-time diversity, (2) cascade optimum spatial-diversity (RAKE) temporal, (3) cascade optimum spatial-optimum temporal, and (4) joint domain optimum processing. It is shown that, due to its interference cancellation capability, optimum combining provides significantly better performance than diversity processing. In particular, it is shown that in a typical CDMA scenario with two antennas, the joint domain optimum combining system provides at least a 25% increase in capacity over diversity processing. Optimum combining may be applied to compensate for imperfect power control of the signals received at the base station.     

Broadband CDMA for personal communications systems

Multipath propagation in a broadband CDMA environment is described. A propagation model for broadband spread-spectrum signals is presented. Experimental results relating to the sharing of the band by fixed service microwave users and mobile personal communications network (PCN) users are discussed. Field tests indicate that PCN systems can provide high-quality communications when sharing the spectrum with fixed-service microwave systems in suburban and urban areas     

A fading reduction method for maritime satellite communications

A maritime satellite communication system has been established mainly for large vessels. In the near future it will be expected to service not only large vessels but also small ones. Studies on reducing the fading of the received signals have become very important because a compact antenna designed to be mounted on small vessels has a broad beamwidth which can be greatly influenced by reflected waves from the sea surface. A simple method and antenna equipment which can reduce the fading are proposed and, further, the effects by experiments are confirmed.