Power allocation strategies for the downlink in a W-CDMA system with soft and softer handover: The impact on capacity

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 5-10

  Pistelli, W U ^a   Verdone, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capacity; Radio resource management; Soft handover; WCDMA

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SETS; CAPACITY; CELL CAPACITY; CELL RADIUS; COMMON RESOURCES; DOWNLINK CAPACITY; MULTI-SERVICES; NETWORK CAPACITY; POWER ALLOCATION STRATEGIES; PROPAGATION MODELS; RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SEMI-ANALYTICAL MODEL; SOFT HANDOVER; SOFTER HANDOVER; TRANSMIT POWER; W-CDMA SYSTEM; WCDMA;

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; RADIO; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

RADIO COMMUNICATION;

EID: 35048822292     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2002.1046649     Document Type: Conference Paper

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