Interactions among UMTS microcells and macrocells supporting data traffic in a real airport scenario

Author

Pérez-Romero, J. ; Sallent, O. ; Agusti, R. ; Díaz-Guerra, M.A. ; Serrano, A. ; Montero, J. ; Miranda, J.L.

Author_Institution

Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Volume

4

fYear

2004

fDate

17-19 May 2004

Firstpage

2384

Abstract

This paper analyses a solution to provide UMTS coverage in a real airport scenario by reusing the existing GSM infrastructure. In this case, macrocell and microcell layers are highly decoupled in terms of interference, so it is shown that CPICH power adjustment does not play a significant role in interlayer traffic distribution. On the other hand, with respect to in-building coverage, it has been observed that by reducing the number of repeaters per microcell an increase in capacity can be obtained.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; airports; code division multiple access; indoor radio; microcellular radio; radio repeaters; CPICH power adjustment; UMTS data traffic; UMTS microcell/macrocell interactions; W-CDMA; airport coverage scenario; existing GSM infrastructure; in-building coverage; in-building microcells; interlayer traffic distribution; microcell repeaters; network capacity; outdoor macrocells; 3G mobile communication; Airports; Business; Communication industry; GSM; Interference; Macrocell networks; Microcell networks; Multiaccess communication; Repeaters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2004. VTC 2004-Spring. 2004 IEEE 59th

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8255-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2004.1390702

Filename

1390702