EFFECTS OF SLOW FADING ON THE PERFORMANCE OF A CDMA SYSTEM

The Letter investigates the issue of uncorrelated multipath fading on uplink and downlink radio channels which impacts the handoff decision quality or slowly moving users in a CDMA system. Simulation results in dicate a resulting capacity reduction by as much as 30% when all the u sers experience quasistationary, single-path Rayleigh fading. This wor k is targeted toward understanding the traffic capacity and deployment implications to local exchange networks of wireless technology altern atives that could provide access to those networks.