Error rate considerations for a high bit rate DS-SS BPSK dual space diversity RAKE

Authors:
Richard Framjee;Vasant K. Prabhu
Affiliations:
Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas;Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
Venue:
RWS'10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE conference on Radio and wireless symposium
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In high bit rate DS-SS BPSK mobile radio reverse links with RAKE demodulators the frequency selective channel causes intersymbol interference. For many years the standard Gaussian approximation error rate has been used and for high bit rates its accuracy is not known. We compare the Gaussian approximation to error rate derived using total probability theorem, Chernoff and Prabhu bounds with true statistics of intersymbol interference. For signal-to-noise ratio's (SNR's) greater than 6dB (cases of interest), we show that the Gaussian approximation is a much looser upper bound than our bounds. The Prabhu bound which can be tailored to different intersymbol interference conditions is the tightest bound. We show that the RAKE combats incoherent intersymbol interference while the immunity it offers decreases for SNR's greater than 10dB. Finally, a dual space diversity RAKE provides an 8dB space diversity gain.