An Exact Error Analysis for Low-Duty Pulsed DS-CDMA Systems in Flat Nakagami Fading

Based on the characteristic function method, an exact error analysis is presented for low-duty pulsed direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems in flat Nakagami fading channel. The presented method is simple and good for any arbitrary pulse shape. The computational involvement of the method is simpler than the method based on improved Gaussian approximation (IGA), which is the only reliable method currently available for calculating error probabilities of such systems