Soft handoff algorithms for CDMA cellular networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1259-1274

  Akar, Mehmet ^a   Mitra, Urbashi ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular communication systems; Diversity; Dynamic programming; Power sums; Soft handoff

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FADING (RADIO); HYBRID SENSORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; RADIO INTERFERENCE; STATISTICS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BASE STATIONS (BS); DIVERSITY DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; EQUAL GAIN COMBINING (EGC); HANDOFF DESIGNS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZED COMBINING (OC); POWER SUMS; SOFT HANDOFF;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 3042724657     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2003.819018     Document Type: Article

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