Exact Performance Measures for Direct-Sequence Code Synchronization in Fading Channels

This paper presents an exact performance analysis for the evaluating a mean acquisition time in a cellular code division multiple access system. New expressions for the probabilities of detection, miss, and false alarm are derived in a frequency-selective Rician fading channel. From the numerical results, it is shown that our formula gives the accurate results of the mean acquisition time in the performance analysis of the parallel acquisition system with the reference filter.