This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A917104. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: In this thesis, the reverse channel model for a seven-cell cluster DS-CDMA cellular communications system operating in a slow-flat Nakagami fading and lognormal shadowing environment is developed. The aforementioned system uses imperfect power control to combat the near-far effect and the lognormal shadowing. Forward error correction is applied by using convolutional encoding and soft decision decoding. The probability of bit error is estimated by using a Gaussian approximation, sectoring antennas and a rake receiver at the base station in order to enhance the system's performance. The performance of the system is examined under several values of the standard deviation of lognormal shadowing and the power control error for various numbers of users and values of the Nakagami-m variable by using simulations. Finally, a barrage noise jammer will be introduced and its effect seen in the performance of the cellular communication system for a specific value of E(sub b)/N(sub o).
