Noncoherent constant false-alarm rate schemes with receive diversity for code acquisition under homogeneous and nonhomogeneous fading circumstances

Abstract

In this paper, we address the cell averaging (CA), greatest of (GO), and smallest of (SO) constant false-alarm rate (CFAR) processors for code acquisition in a homogeneous and a nonhomogeneous environment. The performance characteristics of the CA, GO, and SO processors are analyzed and compared when receiving antenna diversity is employed in the pseudonoise code acquisition of direct-sequence code-division multiple-access systems. From the simulation results, it is observed that the GO CFAR scheme has the best performance in a nonhomogeneous environment and has almost the same performance as the CA CFAR scheme in a homogeneous environment.