Effect of soft handoff on packet transmissions in cellular CDMA downlinks

Author

Zhao, Dongmei ; Shen, Xuemin ; Mark, Jon W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ont., Canada

fYear

2004

fDate

10-12 May 2004

Firstpage

42

Lastpage

47

Abstract

Soft handoff and packet transmission scheduling are studied for cellular CDMA downlinks. A power distribution law is developed first in order to guarantee the required signal-to-interference ratio for each connection in soft handoff. Based on this, packet transmission scheduling for integrated voice and data traffic is proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed packet scheduling scheme using the derived power distribution law can significantly improve the voice connection reliability, increase the system capacity, and achieve high data packet transmission throughput.

Keywords

cellular radio; code division multiple access; data communication; packet radio networks; packet switching; parallel architectures; quality of service; scheduling; transport protocols; cellular CDMA downlinks; data traffic; packet transmission scheduling; power distribution law; quality of service; resource allocation; signal-to-interference ratio; soft handoff; system capacity; voice connection reliability; voice traffic; Downlink; Integrated circuit reliability; Interference; Multiaccess communication; Power distribution; Power system reliability; Processor scheduling; Resource management; Throughput; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks, 2004. Proceedings. 7th International Symposium on

ISSN

1087-4089

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2135-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPAN.2004.1300455

Filename

1300455