Capacity of WCDMA multicellular networks under different Radio Resource Management strategies

Author

Gkonis, Panagiotis ; Kaklamani, Dimitra ; Tsoulos, George

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens

fYear

2008

fDate

7-9 May 2008

Firstpage

60

Lastpage

64

Abstract

The goal of the study presented in this paper is to investigate the performance of a WCDMA multicellular network which employs antenna arrays (AAs) at the base station (BS) under different Radio Resource Management (RRM) strategies. The performance is evaluated statistically in terms of maximum achievable capacity. A WCDMA system level simulator has been developed which executes independent Monte Carlo (MC) simulations in parallel. Simulation results indicate that there can be significant variations in capacity resulting from the differences in the interference suppression mechanism among the RRM strategies.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; antenna arrays; broadband networks; code division multiple access; interference suppression; telecommunication network management; Monte Carlo simulations; WCDMA; antenna arrays; base station; interference suppression mechanism; multicellular networks; radio resource management; Analytical models; Computer networks; Downlink; Electronic mail; Multiaccess communication; Multiple access interference; Noise level; Resource management; Signal to noise ratio; Telecommunication computing; Performance analysis; RRM; WCDMA;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Pervasive Computing, 2008. ISWPC 2008. 3rd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Santorini

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1652-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1653-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISWPC.2008.4556166

Filename

4556166