Performance Analysis of a Six-Port Receiver in a WCDMA Communication System including a Multipath Fading Channel

Table 1

WCDMA end-to-end physical layer subsystems.

	Subsystem	Function
1	WCDMA DL Tx channel coding scheme	Transport channel encoding and multiplexing
2	WCDMA Tx physical mapping	Physical channel mapping
3	WCDMA BS Tx antenna spreading and modulation	Modulation and spreading
4	WCDMA channel model	Channel model
5	Receiver front-end	RF signal reception and frequency demodulation
6	WCDMA UE Rx antenna	Despreading and demodulation
7	WCDMA RX physical channel decoding scheme	Physical channel demapping
8	WCDMA RX channel demapping	Transport channel demultiplexing and decoding