Study of DS-CDMA, RAKE Receiver and Proposal for a Multicarrier DS-CDMA System

Abstract

This paper gives a review of DS-CDMA, RAKE receiver and multicarrier DS-CDMA as well as a proposal and numerical result for a multicarrier DS-CDMA system. This paper is organized as follows: Section I introduces the development of methods for wireless communication over multipath fading channel. Section II gives Turin's evaluation of the effects of multipath and fading on the performance of DS-CDMA systems. Section III gives Pursley's evaluation of this issue. Section IV explains the structure and performance of conventional RAKE receiver. Section V shows Sourour's work on Multicarrier DS-CDMA. Section VI is a proposal for a multicarrier DS-CDMA system and some numerical results I have gotten. Section VII is devoted to the conclusions and future work.