Soft handoff and uplink capacity in a two-tier CDMA System

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1297-1301

  Kishore, Shalinee ^a,b   Greenstein, Larry J ^a,c   Poor, H Vincent ^a,d   Schwartz, Stuart C ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Lehigh University   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Code division multiple access (CDMA); Macrocell; Microcell; Soft handoff; User capacity

Indexed keywords

MACROCELL; MICROCELL; SOFT HANDOFF; USER CAPACITY;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 27744532602     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2005.850319     Document Type: Article

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