The North Jersey Chapter of the IEEE Communications Society New Jersey Institute of Technology Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering New Jersey Center for Multimedia Research present ADAPTIVE NONCOHERENT CODED M-ARY ORTHOGONAL MODULATION FOR DS-CDMA Svetislav Maric (speaker) and Vincent Lau University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering Signal Processing and Communication Group Wednesday, April 9, 1997 Pizza & Soda 6:15 PM, Seminar 6:30 PM NJIT, ECEC Room 202 ABSTRACT: An adaptive coding scheme is introduced for a DS-CDMA system. The System uses non-coherent M-ary orthogonal modulation with RAKE receiver and power control. Both a fast fading channel and a combined fast fading, shadowing and power control channel are considered. General and numerically feasible expressions are derived for the evaluation of the transfer function bounds for both the fixed rate code and the adaptive codes. Simulations are performed to verify the results. It is found that there is a significant improvement in the average throughput and the BER performance in the adaptive coding scheme is relatively robust to shadowing, while the fixed rate codes are ineffective in the shadowing environment. BIO: Svetislav Maric got his Ph.D. degree from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY in 1990 for his work on frequency hopping CDMA systems for radar and sonar, and mobile radio. In 1991 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Wireless Information Network Lab at Rutgers University and then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at City College of New York. since 1995 he has been on the faculty of the Engineering Department at University of Cambridge, UK. His main research interests are in sequence design for spread spectrum CDMA systems, most recently for multirate fiber-optic CDMA systems, as well as in general analysis of DS-CDMA for wireless communications (adaptive coding, diversity applications, etc). Speaker's e-mail: svm@eng.cam.ac.uk.