Modeling soft handoffs' performance in a realistic CDMA network

Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing

Volumn 167 AISC, Issue VOL. 2, 2012, Pages 103-118

  Ekpenyong, Moses E ^a   Umana, Enobong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UYO   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

propagation exponent; Propagation pathloss; soft handoff probability; soft handoff threshold

Indexed keywords

CDMA CELLULAR NETWORK; CDMA NETWORKS; COVERAGE AREA; NETWORK DEFECTS; NETWORK OPERATOR; OVERLAP REGION; PATH LOSS; PATH-LOSS MODEL; PROBABILITY MODELS; PROPAGATION EXPONENT; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SEAMLESS CONNECTIVITY; SECOND GENERATION; SOFT HANDOFFS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84865199216     PISSN: 18675662     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30111-7_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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