CDMA Radio Network Planning: A Comparison of Different Interference Evaluation Methods

The target of this work is the comparison of different approximation thechniques for the evaluation of the level of interference, and the consequent errors on data frames transmitted on the channel, generated by the sum of interfering signals. The interference, also known as MAI (Multiple Access Interference), is caused by presence of other users in the same cell of the reference user or in neighboring cells. The system considered is a generic spread-spectrum communication system, whose spreading technique can be described as CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), with of without rake receivers, with a direcr or indirect spreading technique. Although the analysis techniques considered are extremely broad" in their application