An improved
spread spectrum communication
system includes a
transmitter and a
receiver utilizing a
pilot channel for the transmission of pure rather than modulated PN codes for
code acquisition or tracking purposes with a lower
bit error rate. The
pilot signal is used to obtain initial
system synchronization and phase tracking of the transmitted
spread spectrum signal. At the
transmitter side, a Walsh code generator, a Walsh modulator, a first PN code generator, a first band spreader, a second band spreader,
finite impulse response filters, digital-analog
converters, low-pass filters, an
intermediate frequency mixer, a carrier mixer, a band-pass filter are used to transmit a
spread spectrum signal. At the
receiver side, a corresponding band-pass filter, a carrier mixer, an intermediate-
frequency mixer, low-pass filters, analog-digital
converters, a second PN code generator, an I channel despreader, a Q channel despreader, a PN code synchronization controller, a Walsh code generator, a first Walsh demodulator, a second Walsh demodulator, accumulator & dump circuits, a combiner, and a data decider are used to demodulate a received spread spectrum signal