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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: Why not PEP over cellular?
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:28:23 GMT
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- wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (Bill Mayhew) writes:
- >Something else to keep in mind is that cellular telephones in the
- >US transmit on a frequency of approximately 900 MHz. At such a
- >high frequency, multipath distortion and other signal quality
- >vaggaries are pretty strong in the case of a moving transciever.
- >The continuously variable delays and echo intensities effectively
- >reduce the usable bandwidth.
-
- >Fancy digital processing techniques can be applied, but the DSP
- >window size is going to have to be small enough that rapidly
- >changing transmission characteristics may be accomodated.
-
- Time to plug CDMA again - we use the multipath to make a stronger
- signal. If we have one signal coming in at -20 dBm Ec/I0 from the
- cell, and another one coming in a few chips later at a lower power,
- say -40 dBm, and even another one at a lower or higher power, we can
- combine all three into one signal by effectively shifting the time on
- each one and using a combiner to result in a stronger signal than any
- of the three. We lock on to each of the paths, and track them as they
- shift around due to movement of the vehicle (or just due to the
- vagarites of the signal). Thus multipath helps us rather than hurts
- us. The original implementation of CDMA was on a number of DSPs, so
- it can be done, and with todays modern DSPs it might only take one.
-
- And, since we've been so interested in multipath, we've done a lot of
- work on it - and I can back up your "pretty strong" statement. Places
- like New York are incredible! The multipath is often stronger than
- the signal, and the buildings provide crossing zones of cell control,
- so that as you're driving you get one cell stronger, then another,
- then another, then another, often twice a block. With our soft
- handoff this is no problem, but it can be murder on an FM phone. And
- in some places (Salt Lake City is particularly bad, due to far-off
- cliffs which reflect back a _wicked_ signal) the multipath is so bad
- that you have to search quite a large window, 128 chips or more.
- Something like this is going to give a time-division system the
- willies.
-
-
- >Telebit did or does make a specific model called Cellblazer that
- >attempts to deal with the issues above. A regular v.22 or v.32
- >type modem is likely to have a quite difficult time.
-
- Amen. Telebit makes some great modems - I really like their QBlazer
- cube.
- --
- Quark! Quark! Beware the quantum duck!
-