DS-CDMA Cellular Systems Performance with Base Station Assignment, Power Control Error, and Beamforming over Multipath Fading

The interference reduction capability of antenna arrays, base station assignment and the power control algorithms have been considered separately as means to increase the capacity in wireless communication networks. In this paper, we propose base station assignment method based on minimizing the transmitter power (BSA-MTP) technique in a direct sequence-code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) receiver in the presence of frequency-selective Rayleigh fading and power control error (PCE). This receiver consists of constrained least mean squared (CLMS) algorithm, matched filter (MF), and maximal ratio combining (MRC) in three stages. Also, we present switched-beam (SB) technique in the first stage of the RAKE receiver for enhancing signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) in DS-CDMA cellular systems. The simulation results indicate that BSA-MTP technique can significantly improve the network bit error rate (BER) in comparison with the conventional case. Finally, we discuss on three parameters of the PCE, number of resolvable paths, and channel propagation conditions (path-loss exponent and shadowing) and their effects on capacity of the system via some computer simulations.