An analytical model for user satisfaction in WCDMA systems based on the ETSI criteria

Author

Giacomazzi, Paolo ; Musumeci, Luigi ; Verticale, Giacomo

Author_Institution

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

11-15 May 2003

Firstpage

382

Abstract

Most analytical models for the evaluation of convergence and capacity of WCDMA systems aim at evaluating only the outage probability of a given cellular deployment scenario. This is not in line with the ETSI guidelines for performance evaluation, which state that the coverage and the capacity of the system should be measured in terms of a given percentage of unsatisfied users. In this paper, we elaborate an analytical model capable of giving such a figure. In addition, a comparison between analytical and simulation results confirms the validity of the proposed model.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; cellular radio; code division multiple access; probability; ETSI criteria; European Telecommunications Standards Institute; UMTS; Universal Mobile Telecommunications Systems; WCDMA systems; analytical model; outage probability; user satisfaction; wideband code division multiple access; 3G mobile communication; Analytical models; Base stations; Bit error rate; Capacity planning; Circuits; Interference; Multiaccess communication; Power control; Telecommunication standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2003. ICC '03. IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7802-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2003.1204204

Filename

1204204