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Comparison – FDMA, TDMA and CDMA

Wireless Communication

S.No Parameter FDMA TDMA CDMA

1. Data Rates Low Medium High

2. Mode of Data Continuous Signal Signal in bursts Digital Signal

3. Capacity of the Low Medium Large

system

4. Cost High Low Installation cost is high

but operating cost is
lowest.

5. Handoff Hard Hard Soft

6. Flexibility Low Moderate High

7. Technique Sharing of overall Sharing of time of Sharing of bandwidth

bandwidth of satellite the satellite and time both
transponder transponder

8. Synchonization No synchronization is Time synchronization No synchronization is

required. is essential. required.

9. Code Word No code word is No code word is Code words are required
required. required. by the ground station.

10. Power Power efficiency is Full power efficiency Full power efficiency is
 efficiency reduced. is possible. possible.

11. Guard times Guard Bands are Guard Times are Both guard times and
and Bands required. required. bands are required.

12. Interference Adjacent frequency Interference between Performance is affected

Effects bands interference the user of adjacent because of adjacent
generated because of time slots is time and frequency
nonlinearity of generated because slots. But effect is less
satellite transponder of incorrect due to frequency
amplifier. synchronization. hopping.

13. Variable Difficult Easy Easy

Transmission
Rate

14. Near-far No No Yes

Problem

15. Fading Equalizer not needed Equalizer may be RAKE receiver possible
Mitigation needed

PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION:

1. FDMA:
2. TDMA:

3. CDMA:
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