Simulating soft handover and power control for enhanced UMTS
Date
2005ISBN
3-8007-2909-1978-3-8007-2909-8
Source
IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC2005 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2005
Volume
3Pages
1646-1651Google Scholar check
Keyword(s):
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
In this paper we present a soft handover algorithm for wide band CDMA based E-UMTS networks and the associated power control algorithm. The handover and power control algorithms have been developed and implemented in the framework of a system level E-UMTS simulator developed under the IST SEACORN project. The paper provides a background on handover design techniques and explains the handover implementation. The soft handover algorithm has been modeled using the guidelines provided in the standards and the literature for W-CDMA intra-frequency handovers. The combination of established handover techniques with Enhanced UMTS is a novelty feature of this paper and provides a reference for further performance comparison. © 2005 IEEE.