• DocumentCode
    1186584
  • Title

    Capacity and coverage increase with repeaters in UMTS urban cellular mobile communication environment

  • Author

    Patwary, Mohammad N. ; Rapajic, Predrag B. ; Oppermann, Ian

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Telecommun., Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • Volume
    53
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    2005
  • Firstpage
    1620
  • Lastpage
    1624
  • Abstract
    In this letter, we propose to use repeaters to increase system information capacity in urban areas, where path loss exponents are higher (as much as 3.4 or more). There is at least a 10% increase in coverage area when repeaters are placed in every cell within the network to increase system capacity. The overall system information capacity is doubled at propagation exponent 3.7-3.9.
  • Keywords
    3G mobile communication; cellular radio; power control; radio repeaters; telecommunication control; UMTS; downlink; information capacity; power control; repeaters; uplink; urban cellular mobile communication environment; 3G mobile communication; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Microcell networks; Mobile communication; Multiaccess communication; Quality of service; Repeaters; Signal to noise ratio; Urban areas; Wireless communication; Line of sight (LOS); quality of service (QoS); universal mobile telecommunication systems (UMTS);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0090-6778
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCOMM.2005.857144
  • Filename
    1516277