Abstract
In this paper, the impacts of using multiple transmit antennas under doubly correlated MIMO channels on CDMA uplink code acquisition is studied. The performance of a MIMO code acquisition system is analyzed by considering spatial fading correlations, which depend on antenna spacing and azimuth spread at both MS and BS. The detection performance and mean acquisition time in the presence of spatially correlated MIMO channel are presented on a frequency selective fading channel and compared with the cases of spatial fading decorrelation via numerical evaluation. It is observed that the acquisition performance relies on the degree of spatial fading correlations. In addition, it is surprisingly seen that a MIMO code acquisition system provides worse performance than SIMO.
