WAST3G: A comprehensive WCDMA simulation tool for third-generation mobile communications

In this paper we describe a software tool (Wideband CDMA Simulation Tool for Third Generation Mobile Communications, WAST3G) that simulates a mobile communication system based on UMTS. It can be used as a test-bed for new algorithms and methods for deconvolution, demodulation, despreading, equalization and detection, aiming on 3G systems performance and technics. It can also be used as a learning tool for the operation of wireless communications systems in general, and 3G systems in particular, because it implements all necessary steps for a mobile station that was "turned off" to achieve communication, including synchronization and system registration procedures. All these features make WAST3G a very powerful tool for academic and industrial purposes.