Optimum reserved resource allocation scheme for handoff in CDMA cellular system

CDMA cellular systems support two types of handoff: soft handoff and hard handoff. Soft handoff has many advantages over hard handoff. Qualitatively, this feature provides more reliable handoff between base stations as a mobile moves from one cell to the adjacent one. Quantitatively, it considerably increases both the capacity of a heavily loaded multicellular system and the coverage of each individual cell in a lightly loaded system. In this paper, in order to increase the probability of soft handoff at the time of handoff, optimum reserved resource allocation scheme for handoff in CDMA cellular system is proposed, which allocates reserved resource to each frequency channel according to the number of neighbor cells using the same frequency channel. Performance analysis results show that the proposed scheme has higher probability of soft handoff at the time of handoff and higher total call processing performance which is a function of both new calls accepted probability and soft handoff probability than the conventional scheme allocating reserved resource irrelevantly to frequency channels being used by neighbor cells.