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Issues in Microcellular Communications — CDMA Versus TDMA

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In this paper we briefly outline some current issues in personal communications networks and then compare the capacity of CDMA and TDMA in a microcellular radio channel. We calculate the performance of CDMA and TDMA in a frequency selective Rician channel, which appears to be representative of the microcellular environment. The effects of cell sectorization and forward error correction are analyzed. Achievable capacity improvements due to the voice activity, in both schemes, are accounted for. In the case of TDMA, both equalized and unequalized performance are considered.

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    R. L. Pickholtz & B. R. Vojcic

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    Bijan Jabbari

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Pickholtz, R.L., Vojcic, B.R. (1994). Issues in Microcellular Communications — CDMA Versus TDMA. In: Jabbari, B. (eds) Worldwide Advances in Communication Networks. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1355-5_9

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