Reverse link capacity and interference statistics of DS/CDMA with transmit diversity

This paper examines the impact of spatial diversity implementations at both mobile handset and base stations on the interference statistics and capacity of a reverse-link direct sequence code division multiple access (DS/CDMA.) system. Several parameters that can affect the capacity are considered: transmit diversity order, spatial receive diversity order, the number of multipath channels, fade distribution and multiple intensity profile, maximum transmit power, soft-handoff, and user distribution.