Downlink radio resource management approach for 3G W-CDMA networks

The design of radio resource management strategies is an important issue in the context of 3G W-CDMA-based systems such as UTRAN. Some of the relevant elements influencing downlink RRM are identified and presented, in particular, the downlink admission threshold and the importance of establishing some limits on the maximum power per connection. The effect of these two parameters is studied for different cell radius scenarios. Moreover, the capacity of the system is determined under certain established quality of service requirements, in terms of admission probability, block error rate and dropping probability.