PARALLEL ACQUISITION IN MOBILE DS-CDMA SYSTEMS

This paper presents the performance of a direct sequence spread spectr um acquisition scheme in a mobile terrestrial communications system, T he effects of fading, multipath, power control, shadowing, multiple ac cess interference, out-of-cell interference, vehicle speed, voice acti vity, and sectorization are examined, The acquisition scheme uses nonc oherent detection and a parallel search strategy. The analysis is done for the reverse link of a mobile code-division multiple-access (CDMA) system, The purpose of this paper is to derive the acquisition perfor mance of a mobile communications system under practical assumptions, a nd I give realistic capacity estimates based on acquisition performanc e criteria.