RAKE RECEIVER: The RAKE receiver is so named because it reminds the function of a garden rake, each finger collecting symbol energy similarly to how tines on a rake collect leaves. A RAKE receiveris a radio receiver designed to counter the effects of multipath fading. They are common in a …

In multipath propagation there exist several paths with different delays between a transmitter and a receiver. As a result the receiver may receive multiple copies of the signal, each with different delays. Rake receivers can be used to mitigate the effect of multipath propagation. A rake receiver uses n correlators …