Low-power adaptive pseudo noise code acquisition for spread-spectrum systems

Mau L. Wu*, Kuei-Ann Wen

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    Abstract

    A novel pseudo noise code acquisition combined with the newly proposed adaptive sampling rate and threshold control (ASTC) algorithm is derived for low-power spread-spectrum systems with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor implementations. Low-power performance can be achieved by reducing the sampling rate of the proposed system while maintaining the system performance. The sampling rate is dynamically updated due to the change of the channel noise level. Under the assumptions that the channel is additive white Gaussian noise slow-fading channel, up to 74.3% reduction in power consumption compared to the conventional fixed-sampling rate and fixed-threshold architecture is demonstrated with insignificant increase of system complexity. The proposed architecture can be applied to the design of low-power and controllable- performance spread-spectrum communication systems.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)748-760
    Number of pages13
    JournalIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
    Volume1
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 1 Dec 2002

    Keywords

    • Adaptive computing
    • Code acquisition
    • Communication
    • Low-power design
    • Spread spectrum

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