Effect of soft handoffs on the signaling traffic in IMT-2000 networks

Author

Kwon, Young Hoon ; Kim, Duk Kyung ; Jung, Jae Hoon ; Choi, Moon Kyu ; Sung, Dan Keun ; Yoon, Ho Kwon ; Han, Woon-Young

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

4

fYear

1998

fDate

6/20/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1990

Abstract

Code division multiple access (CDMA) is a promising candidate for radio transmission technologies in future mobile communication systems, such as International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT)-2000. As a unique feature of CDMA systems, soft handoff can increase the system capacity but it may also increase the signaling traffic. This paper investigates the effect of soft handoffs on the signaling traffic in IMT-2000 networks in terms of processing load at each physical entity (PE) and signaling load at each signaling link. Compared with hard handoffs, soft handoffs require more processing, especially at the access network and slightly increase signaling load

Keywords

cellular radio; code division multiple access; mobile radio; radio networks; telecommunication signalling; telecommunication traffic; CDMA; IMT-2000 networks; International Mobile Telecommunications-2000; access network; code division multiple access; mobile communication systems; mobile radio; physical entity; processing load; signaling link; signaling load; signaling traffic; soft handoffs effect; system capacity; Access control; Communication system control; Intelligent networks; Mobile communication; Moon; Multiaccess communication; Research and development; Signal processing; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1998. GLOBECOM 1998. The Bridge to Global Integration. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4984-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1998.775889

Filename

775889