Macrodiversity performance in the uplink of WCDMA with radio over fibre access network

Author

Khashjori, Nazem ; Al-Raweshidy, H.S. ; Bajwa, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Kent Univ., Canterbury, UK

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2002

Firstpage

1367

Abstract

In this paper, the performance of the uplink of a WCDMA radio over fibre (RoF) access network during macrodiversity mode is investigated. We propose a novel macrodiversity scheme in the uplink, based on maximum ratio combining (MRC) of the received symbols by different BS receivers of a WCDMA mobile cellular system with RoF. Our simulation results demonstrate that, for a given service, the coverage efficiency increased by 19%-23% (depending on the channel model and the mobile speed) in the case of MRC as compared to selection combining (SC).

Keywords

broadband networks; cellular radio; code division multiple access; diversity reception; optical fibre subscriber loops; optical modulation; radio access networks; MRC; RoF; W-CDMA radio over fibre access network; WCDMA; macrodiversity mode; maximum ratio combining; mobile cellular system; performance; uplink; Additive noise; Costs; Diversity reception; Intelligent networks; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Multiaccess communication; Radio network; Receivers; Switches; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2002. The 13th IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7589-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2002.1045252

Filename

1045252