CDMA: Frequency Hopping
n How to deal with collisions?
voice transfer: loss of small amounts of information not
critical, just drop it (but: QoS!)
data transfer: have to ensure that no data is lost
n hopping sequences within one cell orthogonal, so only
interference possible with transmissions in a neighbor cell
n transmissions from other cells low in power, typically treated
as noise and filtered out
n channel coding and interleaving of data ensure that receiver
can tolerate a certain number of burst errors. In GSM,
interleaving is done over 8 bursts, and approximately two of
these 8 bursts can get wiped out and recovered at receiver