Fast acquisition scheme and implementation of PRACH in WCDMA system

The performance and implementation of PRACH (physical random access channel) acquisition in WCDMA system is investigated. The analysis shows that the conventional methods are not satisfying. Thus we proposed the quasi-matched filter acquisition scheme of PRACH preamble which based on fast Hadamard transform. We implement this method by hardware in the practical WCDMA field trial system. The simulation and test results show that the proposed scheme achieves the following performance: the detection probability with E/sub b//N/sub 0/ =7 dB is not less than 95%, and the mean acquisition time is less than 1.33 ms.

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