Fade margins for soft and hard handoffs

Wireless Networks

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 277-288

  Rege, Kiran M ^a,b   Nanda, Sanjiv ^a,b   Weaver, Carl F ^a   Peng, Wei C ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FADING (RADIO); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIO LINKS; SPREAD SPECTRUM COMMUNICATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEMS; CONNECTION DELAY; FADE MARGINS; HARD HANDOFFS; LINEAR TOPOLOGY; LOG NORMAL SHADOW FADING; SOFT HANDOFFS;

MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030406963     PISSN: 10220038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01262047     Document Type: Article

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