Article: Optimisation of soft handoff margin in WCDMA cellular system Journal: International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS) 2010 Vol.4 No.3 pp.254 - 264 Abstract: The focus of the paper is to analyse the downlink performance of a wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) system with site selection diversity transmission (SSDT) power control during soft handoff (SHO) mode and to find the optimum SHO margin (MSH) in terms of maximum system capacity under energy-per-bit to noise spectral density ratio (Eb/N0) quality requirements. Analysing the dependency of the connection probabilities, percentage of users connected to one, two, or three base stations (BSs) simultaneously as a function of the MSH. We analysed the system capacity and required resources dependency on MSH for voice service and combined multimedia mobile services. System capacity dependency on MSH is analysed, by considering two types of user distributions, namely: 1) uniform user distribution; 2) a concentration of all the users in the location that requires maximum transmitted power (the worst case). The result of this analysis shows an increase in user capacity of about 16%-20% for the optimum MSH of 5-5.5 dB. Nevertheless, the resources required (number of scrambling codes) by the base station increases faster than the number of active users in terms of MSH. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Optimisation of soft handoff margin in WCDMA cellular system

Authors: S. Tamilselvan, K. Manivannan

Addresses: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry-605014, India. ' Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry-605014, India

Abstract: The focus of the paper is to analyse the downlink performance of a wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) system with site selection diversity transmission (SSDT) power control during soft handoff (SHO) mode and to find the optimum SHO margin (M_SH) in terms of maximum system capacity under energy-per-bit to noise spectral density ratio (E_b/N₀) quality requirements. Analysing the dependency of the connection probabilities, percentage of users connected to one, two, or three base stations (BSs) simultaneously as a function of the M_SH. We analysed the system capacity and required resources dependency on M_SH for voice service and combined multimedia mobile services. System capacity dependency on M_SH is analysed, by considering two types of user distributions, namely: 1) uniform user distribution; 2) a concentration of all the users in the location that requires maximum transmitted power (the worst case). The result of this analysis shows an increase in user capacity of about 16%-20% for the optimum M_SH of 5-5.5 dB. Nevertheless, the resources required (number of scrambling codes) by the base station increases faster than the number of active users in terms of M_SH.

Keywords: soft handoff margin; SHO; uniform distribution; capacity; site selection diversity transmission; SSDT; wideband code division multiple access; WCDMA; cellular systems; optimisation; scrambling codes; active users.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCNDS.2010.032414

International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 2010 Vol.4 No.3, pp.254 - 264

Published online: 02 Apr 2010 *

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