Capacity Estimation in Multiple-Chip-Rate DS/CDMA Systems Supporting Multimedia Services

This paper is concerned with capacity estimation in multiple-chip-rate (MCR)DS/CDMA systems supporting multimedia services with different informationrates and quality requirements. Considering both power spectral density (PSD)over a radio frequency (RF) band and the effect of RF input filtering onthe receiver, capacity that satisfies the requirementof the bit energy-to-interference PSD ratio is derived.The optimum value of the received power which causes the leastinterference for other users while maintaining an acceptablequality-of-service(QoS) requirement is also derived. The results show that system performanceisstrongly affected by a selected channel assignment strategy. Therefore, it is critical to efficiently assign radio resources in MCR-DS/CDMA systems that support high capacity and a low blocking rate.