Performance evaluation of direct-sequence spread spectrum multiple-access for indoor wireless communication in a Rician fading channel

The bit error probability in a Rician fading channel is evaluated for indoor wireless communications considering direct-sequence spread spectrum multiple access (DS/SSMA) with differential phase shift keying (DPSK) modulation and two types of diversity: selection diversity and maximal ratio combining. The performance of the indoor radio system is also obtained in terms of outage probability and bandwidth efficiency. The analysis is done for a star-connected multiple access radio network. Furthermore the influence of three types of forward error correcting (FEC) codes namely, the (15,7) BCH code, the (7,4) Hamming code and the (23,12) Golay code, on the performance is studied. Computational results are presented for suitable values of Rician parameters in an indoor environment and using Gold codes as spread spectrum codes.<>