Single-dwell and multidwell PN code acquisition in multipath Rayleigh fading channels

Traditional analysis on PN code acquisition was based on either AWGN or single-ray Rician/Rayleigh fading channels. In this paper, we analyze single-dwell and multidwell code acquisition schemes based on a two-ray Rayleigh fading channel model which is more appropriate to represent the real situations in mobile (personal) communication. Through the analytical and numerical results, we may figure out the performance of typical PN code acquisition schemes and the corresponding penalty in multipath fading channels when the second ray has much smaller power and the processing gain is not large. Otherwise, the second ray may be useful in communication and thus improves the acquisition performance as introducing a new correct acquisition state.