ON THE CAPACITY OF AN FFH-CDMA PACKET RADIO NETWORK

A packet radio network employing FFH-CDMA as multiple access technique is studied. We focus on the acquisition process and we examine the ef fect of multiple-access interference. The relationship between the max imum number of tolerable interfering transmissions and the number of f requencies used in frequency hopping is investigated. The bounds to th e probability of acquisition as well as approximations to them are use d. The effects of other system parameters, such as the length of the s ignal's preamble, the number of chips of the code per bit and the numb er of correlators are also studied.