  A new analysis is presented for the direct-sequence code-division multiple
access (DS-CDMA) cellular uplink. For a given network topology, closed-form
expressions are found for the outage probability and rate of each uplink in the
presence of path-dependent Nakagami fading and log-normal shadowing. The
topology may be arbitrary or modeled by a random spatial distribution for a
fixed number of base stations and mobiles placed over a finite area with the
separations among them constrained to exceed a minimum distance. The analysis
is more detailed and accurate than existing ones and facilitates the resolution
of network design issues, including the influence of the minimum base-station
separation, the role of the spreading factor, and the impact of various
power-control and rate-control policies. It is shown that once power control is
established, the rate can be allocated according to a fixed-rate or
variable-rate policy with the objective of either meeting an outage constraint
or maximizing throughput. An advantage of the variable-rate policy is that it
allows an outage constraint to be enforced on every uplink, whereas the
fixed-rate policy can only meet an average outage constraint.
