The impact of imperfect channel estimation on the forward-link performance in CDMA distributed antenna systems in multi-path fading environment is investigated.A detailed analytical model based on a hybrid signal combining method is presented and exact outage probability expression is derived.The investigation shows that the effect of imperfect channel estimates varies with system load.Furthermore,if simulcasting is employed,macro-diversity can decrease the sensitivity of forward-link to channel estimation errors and increase the forward-link outage performance,which is contrary to the conclusion drawn based on the ideal channel estimation assumption.