On WCDMA base station selection criteria

Author

Adelantado, Ferran ; Sallent, Oriol ; Pérez-Romero, Jordi

Author_Institution

Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Volume

10

Issue

4

fYear

2006

fDate

4/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

248

Lastpage

250

Abstract

This letter presents a BS selection criterion for WCDMA that allows selecting the base station requiring the minimum transmission power in both the uplink and downlink direction. The importance of minimizing transmitted power lies on the associated interference reduction and, consequently, the capacity increase. Furthermore, it is shown that, with a proper setting of the parameters, the criterion used in practical WCDMA systems based on Ec/Io measurements can be adjusted to provide results similar to the proposed method.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; broadband networks; cellular radio; code division multiple access; interference suppression; Ec-Io measurement; WCDMA; base station selection criteria; cellular networks; downlink direction; interference reduction; third generation mobile communications; transmission power minimization; uplink direction; wideband code division multiple access; Antenna measurements; Base stations; Downlink; Energy management; Interference; Mobile communication; Multiaccess communication; Multimedia systems; Quality of service; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2006.1613736

Filename

1613736