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Figure 6.13 BER vs. E b /N 0 for QPSK, root-raised-eosine pulse shaping (0.22 rolloff),<br />

fading, two-tap, symbol-spaced channel, with relative path strengths 0 and —1 dB.<br />

Power control is sometimes used to mitigate variation due to fading. Here we<br />

will focus on signal power variation and the technique of target-C power control.<br />

When the signal fades down in power, the receiver tells the transmitter to use more<br />

power. The transmitter ensures that the signal power (summed over all signal<br />

paths) is kept constant at the receiver. Such a form of power control makes sense,<br />

for example, for a CDMA uplink, in which users share how much power they are<br />

allowed to create at the intended receiver. Here we assume an ideal form, which is<br />

simulated by normalizing the fading coefficients of each fading realization so that<br />

their powers instantaneously sum to one. Note that we have ignored the fact that<br />

the transmitter has a maximum transmit power, so that it may not always be able<br />

to maintain a certain power at the receiver.<br />

Results for the TwoTSfade channel with power control are given in Fig. 6.14.<br />

Compared to the results without power control, overall performance is better, as<br />

the signal power is not allowed to vary either up or down due to fading. However,<br />

performance is more improved for LE and DFE than for MF. This is because with<br />

power control, performance is ISI limited at high SNR, and LE and DFE mitigate<br />

the effects of ISI. Thus, with power control, the gains of equalization are larger.<br />

So far we have examined bit error rate, averaged over different fading realizations.<br />

Is this what we should look at? The answer depends on how the communication<br />

system is being used (the application) and how the system is designed. For example,<br />

consider speech and the GSM system. Speech is divided into short speech frames,<br />

which are encoded with a forward error correction (FEC) code. The system has

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