Digital Processing Techniques for WCDMA Cellular Systems

Baseband processing techniques for Code Division
Multiple Access (CDMA) systems generally fall into
two broad categories: error coding and signal
spreading. This thesis addresses these issues for
the Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) baseband receiver. The
Third Generation Partnership Protocol (3GPP)
standards will be used in specifying the system
model. 3GPP systems support two forms of error
coding, i.e., convolutional coding and Turbo coding.
A Viterbi decoder is developed for convolutional
codes to optimize the likelihood of the estimated
information sequence. For Turbo coding, a Turbo
decoder, which attempts to maximize the log-
likelihood ratio of each information bit, is
introduced. The 3GPP standards also specify long and
short codes for signal spreading. For long codes,
linear estimation techniques are designed based on
specific cost and constraint functions. For short
codes, adaptive estimation techniques, which
minimize the mean-square error (MSE) cost, are
presented.

Autorentext

Dr Alan Tan received the B.Eng. (Hons) degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, in 1999 on the Shell scholarship, and the M.EngSc. and Ph.D. degrees from Multimedia University, Selangor, in 2003 and 2008, respectively.

Klappentext

Baseband processing techniques for Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems generally fall into two broad categories: error coding and signal spreading. This thesis addresses these issues for the Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) baseband receiver. The Third Generation Partnership Protocol (3GPP) standards will be used in specifying the system model. 3GPP systems support two forms of error coding, i.e., convolutional coding and Turbo coding. A Viterbi decoder is developed for convolutional codes to optimize the likelihood of the estimated information sequence. For Turbo coding, a Turbo decoder, which attempts to maximize the log-likelihood ratio of each information bit, is introduced. The 3GPP standards also specify long and short codes for signal spreading. For long codes, linear estimation techniques are designed based on specific cost and constraint functions. For short codes, adaptive estimation techniques, which minimize the mean-square error (MSE) cost, are presented.