Soft handoff performances of 3-sector and 6-sector multicell CDMA systems

Author

Wang, Weam-Juhn ; Lu, I-Tai ; Liu, Shang-Chieh

Author_Institution

Center of Adv. Technol. in Telecommun., Polytech. Univ. Brooklyn, NY, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2338

Abstract

Soft handoff performances of 3-sector and 6-sector CDMA systems are compared using simulation results. Within typical environmental conditions and handoff parameters, the 6-sector system has larger total soft handoff percentages and mean numbers of active set updates, but the 3-sector system has higher mean numbers of base station (BS) utilization and pertains higher diversity gains

Keywords

access protocols; cellular radio; code division multiple access; digital simulation; diversity reception; multiuser channels; 3-sector multicell CDMA system; 6-sector multicell CDMA system; active set updates; cellular system; diversity gain; environmental conditions; environmental propagation characteristics; forward-link channel model; handoff parameters; optimum soft handoff protocol; simulation results; soft handoff percentages; soft handoff performances; Azimuth; Costs; Diversity methods; Diversity reception; Frequency; Interference; Multiaccess communication; Protocols; Quality of service; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Spring. IEEE VTS 53rd

Conference_Location

Rhodes

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6728-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2001.944018

Filename

944018