• DocumentCode
    1498684
  • Title

    Limits of sectorisation gain caused by mobility and soft handoff

  • Author

    Jug, E. ; Boche, H.

  • Author_Institution
    Tech. Univ. Ilmenau, Germany
  • Volume
    35
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    1/21/1999 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    119
  • Lastpage
    120
  • Abstract
    The improvement of the capacity of mobile communication systems by sectorisation of radio cells is assessed to be too optimistic at present. The authors point out the limits of the sectorisation gain caused by the mobility behaviour of the subscribers and soft handoff. In environments with few subscribers a substantial loss of this gain occurs
  • Keywords
    cellular radio; code division multiple access; digital radio; CDMA; IS-95 standard; capacity improvement; mobile communication systems; radio cell sectorisation; sectorisation gain limits; soft handoff; subscriber mobility behaviour;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19990094
  • Filename
    757996