This paper focuses on a CDMA design study for future third-generation mobile and personal communication systems such as FPLMTS and UMTS. In the design study, a rigorous top down approach is adopted starting from the most essential objectives and requirements of universal third-generation mobile systems. Emphasis is laid on high flexibility with respect to the implementation of a wide range of services and service bit rates including variable rate and packet services. Flexibility in frequency and radio resource management, system and service deployment, and easy operation in mixed-cell and multioperator scenarios are further important design goals. The system concept under investigation is centered around an open and flexible radio interface architecture based on asynchronous direct-sequence CDMA with three different chip rates of approximately 1, 5, and 20 Mchip/s. The presented CDMA system concept forms the basis for an experimental test system (testbed) which is currently under development. This experimental system concept has been jointly established by the partners in the European RACE project R2020 (CODIT). The paper describes the radio transmission scheme and appropriate receiver principles and presents first performance results based on simulations.>

This paper presents a performance analysis of phase quantizers in noncoherent digital correlation detectors for weak signals in additive narrow-band non-Gaussian noise. It will be shown that under certain regularity conditions the effects of quantization and correlation can be strictly separated. The result of an optimization is the uniform phase quantizer which confirms intuitive expectations.

In this paper a noncoherent digital matched filter (DMF) with binary quantization is presented which shows good performance for arbitrarily angle modulated constant-envelope waveforms having large time-bandwidth products. The considered DMF represents an extension of the noncoherent DMF with one-bit digitization suggested previously by Turin for binary PSK signals. Analysis of the filter performance in the presence of white Gaussian noise results in a general expression which allows the output SNR of both DMF's to be calculated for any spread-spectrum waveform. Evaluating this expression reveals that the extended DMF can be matched to arbitrary waveforms having constant envelopes in such a way that the SNR loss with reference to the corresponding analog matched filter is less than 2.87 dB. The degradation is as low as 1.96 dB for waveforms with biphase or quadriphase signal samples such as binary PN-PSK, PNQPSK, and offset-PN-QPSK, but also PN-MSK. If both DMF's are applied to waveforms having complex valued envelopes, the extended DMF may outperform Turin's DMF by as much as 3 dB.