WCDMA downlink simulator with efficient wrap-around technique

Wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) is selected as the air interface scheme for 3G wireless networks. This scheme offers a high data rate that makes the wireless networks a suitable environment for real-time packet data services. 3G networks can be used to deliver multimedia traffic with guaranteed quality of service. Unfortunately, this scheme faces the scalability challenge in terms of the number of connections that can be set up in the cellular network. The more connections take place in WCDMA based network the more interference is created, which yields more QoS degradation. To handle this issue, several algorithms that are collectively alleviate the QoS degradation have been developed and implemented. In this paper, we provide a system link simulator that models the WCDMA cellular network with the necessary radio resource management algorithms. The downlink direction has been simulated as it is usually the limiting link in setting up multimedia sessions, and interactive Web sessions. The simulation environment provides a fair source of intra-cell and inter-cell interference, and avoids session disconnections due to the limited simulation area.