Title :
The performance of macrodiversity in the downlink of WCDMA with radio over fibre access network
Author :
Khashjori, Nazem ; Al-Raweshidy, H.S. ; Bajwa, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electrics, Kent Univ., Canterbury, UK
Abstract :
The performance of a WCDMA radio over fibre access network in macrodiversity mode is investigated. We computed the Eb/N0 for different cases applying the macrodiversity combining method. Our simulation results demonstrate that, for a given service, the capacity increased by 13%-46% (depending on the channel model and the mobile speed) in the case of the macrodiversity link as compared to the single link.
Keywords :
3G mobile communication; cellular radio; channel capacity; code division multiple access; diversity reception; optical fibre networks; 3G mobile cellular systems; 3rd generation systems; W-CDMA; WCDMA; channel model; macrodiversity combining; mobile speed; radio-over-fibre-access network; Computational modeling; Costs; Downlink; Fingers; Intelligent networks; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Multiaccess communication; Optical noise; Radio network; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, 2002. The 5th International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7442-8
DOI :
10.1109/WPMC.2002.1088194