A new analysis of direct-sequence pseudonoise code acquisition on Rayleigh fading channels

@article{citeulike:2802193, abstract = {Accurate performance evaluation of direct-sequence pseudonoise code acquisition on Rayleigh fading channels is investigated. For fading channels the homogeneous Markov chain model, used to characterize the acquisition process over additive white Gaussian noise channels, is no longer valid due to the correlations between cell detections incurred by fading. Hence, the traditional direct and flow-graph approaches for performance evaluation of the code acquisition are not applicable to fading channels. In this paper, a new analysis is proposed for accurate evaluation of the acquisition performance on Rayleigh fading channels. The analysis is quite general and can include various search strategies, types of correlators, and test methods with different performance measures: probability mass function and/or moments of acquisition time. Analytical and simulation results show that the new method predicts the acquisition performance very accurately}, author = {Sheen, Wern-Ho and Wang, Huan-Chun }, booktitle = {Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on}, citeulike-article-id = {2802193}, doi = {10.1109/49.963808}, journal = {Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on}, keywords = {acquisition, channel, code, fading, multipath, pn, rayleigh, spread-spectrum}, number = {11}, pages = {2225--2232}, posted-at = {2008-05-15 18:39:57}, priority = {2}, title = {A new analysis of direct-sequence pseudonoise code acquisition on Rayleigh fading channels}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/49.963808}, volume = {19}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2802193 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2802193 TI - A new analysis of direct-sequence pseudonoise code acquisition on Rayleigh fading channels T2 - Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on JF - Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on VL - 19 IS - 11 SP - 2225 EP - 2232 N2 - Accurate performance evaluation of direct-sequence pseudonoise code acquisition on Rayleigh fading channels is investigated. For fading channels the homogeneous Markov chain model, used to characterize the acquisition process over additive white Gaussian noise channels, is no longer valid due to the correlations between cell detections incurred by fading. Hence, the traditional direct and flow-graph approaches for performance evaluation of the code acquisition are not applicable to fading channels. In this paper, a new analysis is proposed for accurate evaluation of the acquisition performance on Rayleigh fading channels. The analysis is quite general and can include various search strategies, types of correlators, and test methods with different performance measures: probability mass function and/or moments of acquisition time. Analytical and simulation results show that the new method predicts the acquisition performance very accurately KW - acquisition KW - channel KW - code KW - fading KW - multipath KW - pn KW - rayleigh KW - spread-spectrum AU - Sheen, Wern-Ho AU - Wang, Huan-Chun PY - 2001/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/49.963808 ER -