Brief overview of CDMA tech..!!

1. CDMA Technology & IS-95

2. What is CDMA
Both an access method and air-interface
Rest of the network is very similar
Radio resource management, mobility
management, security are similar
Power control and handoffs are different
Uses DSSS and ECC
Frequency reuse factor is 1
3 systems
IS-95 2G, W-CDMA, and CDMA2000

3. Advantages of CDMA Cellular
Higher capacity
Improves voice quality (new coder)
Soft-handoffs
Less power consumption (6-7 mW)
Choice for 3G systems

4. Advantages of CDMA Cellular
Frequency diversity – frequency-dependent
transmission impairments have less effect on
signal
Multipath resistance – chipping codes used for
CDMA exhibit low cross correlation and low
autocorrelation
Privacy – privacy is inherent since spread
spectrum is obtained by use of noise-like signals
Graceful degradation – system only gradually
degrades as more users access the system

5. Drawbacks of CDMA Cellular
Self-jamming – arriving transmissions from
multiple users not aligned on chip boundaries
unless users are perfectly synchronized
Near-far problem – signals closer to the receiver
are received with less attenuation than signals
farther away
Soft handoff – requires that the mobile acquires
the new cell before it relinquishes the old; this is
more complex than hard handoff used in FDMA
and TDMA schemes

6. Drawbacks of CDMA Cellular
Air-interface is the most complex
Not symmetrical (unlike TDMA)
Forward and reverse channels are different
Forward channel (1 Many) synchronized
Forward channel uses orthogonal spreading codes
Reverse channel transmissions are not
synchronized
Orthogonal codes are used for orthogonal
waveform coding

7. Mobile Wireless CDMA Design
Considerations
RAKE receiver – when multiple versions of a
signal arrive more than one chip interval apart,
RAKE receiver attempts to recover signals from
multiple paths and combine them
This method achieves better performance than simply
recovering dominant signal and treating remaining
signals as noise
Soft Handoff – mobile station temporarily
connected to more than one base station
simultaneously

8. Principle of RAKE Receiver

9. IS-95 CDMA Forward Channel
The forward link uses the same frequency spectrum as AMPS
(824-849 Mhz)
Each carrier 1.25MHz
4 types of logical channel: A pilot, a synchronization, 7 paging,
and 55 traffic channels
Channels are separated using different spreading codes
QPSK is the modulation scheme
Orthogonal Walsh codes are used (64 total)
After orthogonal codes, they are further spread by short PN
spreading codes
Short PN spreading codes are M sequences generated by LFSRs
of length 15 with a period of 32768 chips.

10. Forward channel-2
Why we have two spreading codes?
The orthogonal codes are used to differentiate
between the transmissions within a cell
The PN spreading codes are used to isolate different
cells (BSs) that are using the same frequencies.
The same PN sequence is used in all BSs.
The offset for each BS is different. Of course, this
requires synchronization
Synchronization is achieved by GPS.

11. One Forward CDMA
Link, 1.25 MHz in the
824 – 849 MHz bands
PCH PCH Code Code Code Code Code
Pilot Synch
1 7 1 N P S 55
W0 W32 W1 W7 W8 W63
Fundamental Mobile Power Fundamental Mobile Power Supplementary
Code Channel Control Code Channel Control Code Channel
Data Subchannel Data Subchannel Data
Figure 8.4: IS-95 Forward Channel

12. I Pilot PN at
Walsh Code 1.288 Mcps
1.2288 Baseband
Filter
Channel Mcps
Dependent
Symbols Baseband
Filter
Q Pilot PN at
1.288 Mcps
Figure 8.5: Basic Spreading Procedure on the
Forward Channel in IS-95

13. The pilot channel
Provide a reference signal for all MSs that
provides the phase reference for COHERENT
demodulation
4-6 dB stronger than all other channels
Used to lock onto other channels
Obtained using all zero Walsh code; i.e.,
contains no information except the RF carrier
Spread using the PN spreading code to
identify the BS. (512 different BS*64 offsets)
No power control in the pilot channel

14. I Pilot PN at
Walsh Code W0 1.2288 Mcps
1.2288 Baseband
Filter
All 0s Mcps To QPSK
Modulator
Baseband
Filter
Q Pilot PN at
1.2288 Mcps
(a) I Pilot PN at
Walsh Code W32 1.2288 Mcps
Synch
Channel
1.2288 BBF
2.4 4.8
Message
Convolutional ksps Symbol ksps Block
Mcps
Encoder Repetition Interleaver
1.2 ksps 4.8
Code Modulated ksps BBF
Rate 1/2 Symbol Symbol
(b) Q Pilot PN at
1.2288 Mcps
Figure 8.6: (a) Pilot and (b) Sync Channel Processing in IS -95

15. Sync channel
Used to acquire initial time synchronization
Synch message includes system ID (SID),
network ID (NID), the offset of the PN short
code, the state of the PN-long code, and the
paging channel data rate (4.8/9.6 Kbps)
Uses W32 for spreading
Operates at 1200 bps

16. I Pilot PN at
Walsh Code W0 1.2288 Mcps
1.2288 Baseband
Filter
All 0s Mcps To QPSK
Modulator
Baseband
Filter
Q Pilot PN at
1.2288 Mcps
(a) I Pilot PN at
Walsh Code W32 1.2288 Mcps
Synch
Channel
1.2288 BBF
2.4 4.8
Message
Convolutional ksps Symbol ksps Block
Mcps
Encoder Repetition Interleaver
1.2 ksps 4.8
Code Modulated ksps BBF
Rate 1/2 Symbol Symbol
(b) Q Pilot PN at
1.2288 Mcps
Figure 8.6: (a) Pilot and (b) Sync Channel Processing in IS -95

17. Paging channels
Used to page the MS in case of an incoming
call, or to carry the control messages for call
set up
Uses W1-W7
There is no power control
Additionally scrambled by PN long code,
which is generated by LFSR of length 42
The rate 4.8 Kbps or 9.6Kbps

18. I Pilot PN at
Walsh Code W1-7 1.2288 Mcps
Paging
19.2 1.2288 BBF
Channel 9.6 or 19.2 19.2
Message ksps ksps ksps Mcps
Convolutional Symbol Block
Encoder Repetition Interleaver
4.8 or 9.6 Code
ksps Symbol Modulated BBF
Rate 1/2 Symbol
19.2
64:1 ksps
Long Code Mask Long Code Long Code Q Pilot PN at
For
Paging Channel
Generator Decimator 1.2288 Mcps
1.2288
Mcps
Figure 8.7: Paging Channel Processing in IS -95

19. The traffic channels
Carry user information
Two possible date rates
RS1={9.6, 4.8, 2.4, 1.2 Kbps}
RS2={14.4, 7.2, 3.6, 1.8 Kbps}
RS1 is mandatory for IS-95, but support
for RS2 is optional
Also carry power control bits for the
reverse channel

20. Rate 1/2
Voice
Traffic Convolutional I Pilot PN at
Encoder Power Walsh Code Wi 1.2288 Mcps
Control
Bits
800 bps
19.2 1.2288 BBF
ksps Mcps
Symbol Block
Repetition Interleaver MUX
19.2
ksps BBF
19.2
ksps
800 bps Q Pilot PN at
64:1 24:1 1.2288 Mcps
Long Code Mask Long Code Long Code Long Code
Generator Decimator Decimator
1.2288
Mcps
Figure 8.8: Forward Traffic Channel Processing in IS –95 (Rate Set 1)

21. Rate 1/2
Voice
Traffic Convolutional Symbol
Encoder Repetition I Pilot PN at
Power Walsh Code Wi 1.2288 Mcps
Control
Bits
800 bps
19.2 1.2288 BBF
ksps Mcps
Puncture 2 of Block
Every 6 inputs Interleaver MUX
19.2
ksps BBF
19.2
ksps
800 bps Q Pilot PN at
64:1 24:1 1.2288 Mcps
Long Code Mask Long Code Long Code Long Code
Generator Decimator Decimator
1.2288
Mcps
Figure 8.9: Forward Traffic Channel Processing in IS –95 (Rate Set 2)

22. IS-95 CDMA Reverse Channel
Fundamentally different from the forward channels
Uses OQPSK for power efficiency
QPSK demodulation is easy
869-894 MHz range.
No spreading of the data using orthogonal codes
Same orthogonal codes are used for WAVEFORM
encoding
Two types of logical channels: The access channels
and the reverse traffic channels

23. One Reverse CDMA
Link, 1.25 MHz in the
869 – 894 MHz
Access Access Access Access Traffic Traffic
Channel Channel Channel Channel Channel Channel
PCH1 1 PHCP PHCP 1 T
Fundamental Supplementary Supplementary Supplementary Supplementary
Code Channel Code Channel Code Channel Code Channel Code Channel
Data Data Data Data Data
Figure 8.10: IS-95 Reverse Channel

24. 000 001 010 011 100 101 110 111
W0 W4
W1 W5
W2 W6
W3 W7
Figure 8.11: Mapping data bits to Walsh encoded symbols

25. I Pilot PN at
1.2288 Mcps
Access
Message 14.4 28.8
1.2288 BBF
ksps ksps 64-ary Mcps
Convolutional Symbol Block Orthogonal
Encoder Repetition Interleaver
4.8 ksps Modulator
Rate 1/3 BBF
Long Code Mask Long Code Q Pilot PN at
Generator 1.2288 Mcps
Figure 8.12: Access Channel Processing in IS-95