Author(s)

Francesco Benedetto, Gaetano Giunta

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An improved technique with a fractional sampling based on two samples per chip, according to the Nyquist criterion, has been employed by the authors to enhance the performance in the code synchronization of UMTS (or W-CDMA) systems. In this paper, we investigate on the theoretical rationale of such a promising behavior. The performance is analyzed for several wireless channels, in the presence of typical pedestrian and vehicular scenarios of the IMT2000/UMTS cellular systems.

Code Synchronization, Spread Spectrum, Cell Search, UMTS, W-CDMA, Wireless Access

Benedetto, F. and Giunta, G. (2009) Fractional Sampling Improves Performance of UMTS Code Acquisition. Engineering, 1, 1-6. doi: 10.4236/eng.2009.11001.