Capacity enhancement of band-limited DS-CDMA system using weighted despreading function

This paper addresses capacity enhancement of a band-limited direct-sequence code-division multiple-access system by using a weighted despreading function (WDF) in the receiver. An ideal Gaussian channel with perfect power control is assumed. The system performance is measured by the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio of the decision variable derived in the frequency domain, the bandwidth efficiency factor, the capacity enhancement factor, and the bit-error rate. It is shown that tuning a parameter of the WDF employed helps to partially flatten the in-band cross-spectrum of a pair of spreading and despreading functions. Numerical results show that the capacity of the proposed system improves over the conventional system using rectangular despreading function. To assess practical implications of the WDF receiver, the sensitivity to timing error is also analyzed.