June 2010 | Technical Report TR-10-467
A Co–Channel Interference Model for Spread Spectrum Technologies
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Teresa L. Rusyn and Timothy J. Riley, “A Co–Channel Interference Model for Spread Spectrum Technologies,” Technical Report TR-10-467, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, June 2010.
Teresa L. Rusyn 
and Timothy J. Riley
Abstract: Even under ideal circumstances, insufficient spectrum is available for assigning a unique band of frequencies to each communication system. In less ideal circumstances, when a communication system experiences outages due to equipment failure or natural or
Keywords: interference; modeling; spectrum sharing; digital modulation; mobile communications; CDMA; WCDMA; 3G; QPSK; OQPSK; HPSK
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