Performance analysis of soft handoff in CDMA cellular networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1762-1769

  Su, Szu Lin ^a,c,d,e,f   Chen, Jen Yeu ^a,b   Huang, Jane Hwa ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Ministry of Transportation and Communications Taiwan   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^f IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCIES; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

BLOCKING PROBABILITY; CARRIER FREQUENCY; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; HANDOFF REFUSED PROBABILITY; SOFT HANDOFF;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030381071     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.545699     Document Type: Article

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