A WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA NETWORK ON A TIME-DIVISION DUPLEX CDMA TDMA/

A novel wireless multimedia network employing a time division duplex C DMA/TDMA scheme is proposed. The network connects mobile multimedia te rminals to an ATM based LAN through a radio central unit, and provides both uplink and downlink with unbalanced data rates in the same frequ ency band. The uplink (from a mobile terminal to a radio central unit) employs a CDMA scheme to transmit low speed human interface signals ( -2.4 kbit/s), and the downlink employs a TDMA scheme to transmit high speed video signals (-24 Mbit/s). The data rates of both links are ind ependent from that of the LAN. The uplink also employs a RAKE receiver and a forward error correction (FEC) scheme using a BCH code in order to reduce bit errors caused by multipath fading. To mitigate channel degradation caused by the near-far problem and multipath fading, a tra nsmission power control (TPC) method for both links and a channel equa lizer (CEQ) for the downlink are proposed. The control signals for the TPC and the CEQ are estimated from the impulse response of the channe l which is extracted as the output of the matched filters in the CDMA receiver. Theoretical analyses are performed to evaluate the bit error rate (BER) characteristics of the proposed network. The EER performan ce is derived for a general multipath fading condition modeled by the Nakagami-m distribution and a typical delay profile. Numerical calcula tion using recent propagation measurements shows the bit error rates o f both uplink and downlink to be less than 10(-6) when both of the TPC and the CEQ are employed if there are some specular components in the received signals. This excellent performance can cut a way to realize a mobile multimedia terminal for customer premises. Furthermore, the configuration of the mobile terminal is quite simple even if the high speed TDMA signals are received over a multipath fading channel.