On the ability of CDMA to combat log-normal fading

In contrast to the common opinion, that CDMA offers only advantages to overcome frequency-selective fading, it is shown that CDMA can combat log-normal fading (long-term fading), too. This statement holds under the following two conditions. First, equal transmission rates for all users are presupposed. Second, interference cancellation is applied to combat multiple access interference. Including channel coding close to the capacity limit, CDMA may even outperform orthogonal multiple-access in this case.