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Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

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Background on Networking 21Multisectorized antenna: The directional antennas receive signals fromonly a fraction of the current users, thus leading to the reductionof interference.Discontinuous transmission mode: Another way of increasing CDMAcapacity is to operate the antenna in discontinuous transmission(DTX) mode. In DTX, the transmitter is turned off during theperiods of silence in speech. It has been observed that voice signalshave a duty factor of about 3/8 in l<strong>and</strong>line networks <strong>and</strong> 1/2for mobile systems, where background noise <strong>and</strong> vibration cantrigger voice activity detectors. Thus, the average capacity of aCDMA system can be increased by a factor inversely proportionalto the duty factor.Effective power control schemes: An effective power control schemewould choose an appropriate power value that causes decreasedinterference but still maintains the power required for transmission.A good power control scheme would help accommodate anincreased number of users in the network, thereby increasingsystem capacity. Higher spatial reuse can be obtained because thecochannel interference is reduced to a minimum with efficientpower control.1.3.1.6 Evaluation of Capacity of a Cellular CDMA NetworkThe cellular network consists of a large number of mobile users communicatingwith a base station within a cell. The cell-site transmitter consistsof a linear combiner, which adds the spread signals of the individual users<strong>and</strong> also uses a weighting factor for each signal for forward-link powercontrol purposes. For a single-cell system under consideration, theseweighting factors can be assumed to be equal. A pilot signal is alsoincluded in the cell-site transmitter <strong>and</strong> is used by each mobile to set itsown power control for the reverse link. For a single-cell system withpower control, all the signals on the reverse channel are received at thesame power level at the base station. Let the number of users be N. Then,each demodulator at the cell site receives a composite waveform containingthe desired signal of power S <strong>and</strong> (N − 1) interfering users, each ofwhich has power, S. Thus the SNR isS 1SNR = =( N−1)S N−1(1.8)In addition to SNR, bit energy-to-noise ratio is an important parameterin communication systems. It is obtained by dividing the signal powerby the baseb<strong>and</strong> information bit rate, R, <strong>and</strong> the interference power by

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