Capacity analysis for underlaying CDMA microcell/macrocell systems

The CDMA system can provide more capacity than the conventional AMPS system and the hierarchical layer of cells is required for system design in the future. However, the problem is whether the same RF channels used in a CDMA underlaying macrocell/microcell structure also obtain high capacity as in the homogeneous structure. This paper investigates the interference of uplink and downlink from both the microcell and macrocell in a hierarchical structure. Downlink power control is also considered. The results show that the capacity of microcell in a hierarchical structure is 23 per cent less than in homogeneous cells. The capacity of macrocell in a hierarchical structure decreases dramatically in proportion to the number of microcells. The capacities of the microcell and macrocell are limited in downlink, and uplink, respectively. In addition, more efforts for microcell should be made, such as more power is transmitted by microcell basestation if the same RF channel is used in a hierarchical structure. The results suggest that different RF channels are used in a two‐tier cellular environment. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Performance Study for Two-Tier CDMA Cellular Systems with Multi-Channel Access

The CDMA cellular system can provide more capacity than AMPS systems and the hierarchical layer of cells is required for system design. However, system performance and capacity is degraded due to the cochannel interference between microcell and macrocell if a single frequency channel is shared. This paper proposes three multi-channel access schemes where various frequency channels are assigned for microcell and macrocell. Performances of channel capacity, blocking probability and blocking ratio in uplink and downlink are evaluated. Due to channel segregation and thus the cochannel interference among macrocell and microcell are minimized, the proposed scheme 3 where all channels are accessible sequentially in macrocell and microcell performs the best in system capacity and blocking probability than the other schemes.     

Impact of Power Control Strategy and Cell Classification on Hierarchical Cellular System's Reverse Link

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Capacity analysis of macro/microcellular CDMA with power ratiocontrol and tilted antenna

The reverse link capacity is obtained analytically for macro/microcellular code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems operating in the same frequency band. The focuses are on the ratio of required receive power of the macrocell base station (BS) to that of the microcell BS and the tilt angle of the microcell antenna to increase the system capacity. The microcell-to-macrocell interference is derived in closed form by geometric approximation, and the macrocell-to-microcell interference is calculated on the divided regions of macrocell. The optimal tilt angle is obtained by defining the minimum interference tradeoff factor that maximizes the system capacity. It is shown that the system capacity increases remarkably with power ratio control in macro/microcellular environments. Also, the properly chosen antenna tilt angle adds more capacity, and enables the microcell users to save on the transmit power     

Uplink user capacity in a CDMA system with hotspot microcells: effects of finite transmit power and dispersion

This paper examines the uplink user capacity in a two-tier code division multiple access (CDMA) system with hotspot microcells when user terminal power is limited and the wireless channel is finitely-dispersive. A finitely-dispersive channel causes variable fading of the signal power at the output of the RAKE receiver. First, a two-cell system composed. of one macrocell and one embedded microcell is studied and analytical methods are developed to estimate the user capacity as a function of a dimensionless parameter that depends on the transmit power constraint and cell radius. Next, novel analytical methods are developed to study the effect of variable fading, both with and without transmit power constraints. Finally, the analytical methods are extended to estimate uplink user capacity for multicell CDMA systems, composed of multiple macrocells and multiple embedded microcells. In all cases, the analysis-based estimates are compared with and confirmed by simulation results.     

Effects of diversity power control, and bandwidth an the capacityof microcellular CDMA systems

We evaluate the capacity and bandwidth efficiency of microcellular CDMA systems. Power control, multipath diversity system bandwidth, and path loss exponent are seen to have a major impact on the capacity. The CDMA system considered uses convolutional codes, orthogonal signalling, multipath/antenna diversity with noncoherent combining, and fast closed-loop power control on the uplink (portable-to-base) direction. On the downlink (base-to-portable), convolutional codes, BPSK modulation with pilot-signal-assisted coherent reception, and multipath diversity are employed. Both fast and slow power control are considered for the downlink. The capacity of the CDMA system is evaluated in a multicell environment taking into account shadow fading, path loss, fast fading, and closed-loop power control. Fast power control on the downlink increases the capacity significantly. Capacity is also significantly impacted by the path loss exponent. Narrowband CDMA (system bandwidth of 1.25 MHz) requires artificial multipath generation on the downlink to achieve adequate capacity. For smaller path loss exponents, which are more likely in microcellular environments, artificial multipath diversity of an order of as high as 4 may be needed. Wideband CDMA systems (10 MHz bandwidth) achieve greater efficiencies in terms of capacity per MHz     

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

This paper examines the effect of soft handoff on the uplink user capacity of a code division multiple access system consisting of a single macrocell in which a single hotspot microcell is embedded. The users of these two base stations operate over the same frequency band. In the soft-handoff scenario studied here, both macrocell and microcell base stations serve each system user, and the two received copies of a desired user's signal are summed using maximal ratio combining. Exact and approximate analytical methods are developed to compute uplink user capacity. Simulation results demonstrate a 20% increase in user capacity compared to hard handoff. In addition, simple approximate methods are presented for estimating soft-handoff capacity and are shown to be quite accurate.     

Asymmetric FCA for Downlink and Uplink Transmission in Clustered Multihop Cellular Network

A clustered multihop cellular network (CMCN) with virtual cells has been proposed to achieve the characteristics of macrocell/microcell hierarchically overlaid architecture by applying clustering techniques. As a complement to the traditional cellular networks, CMCN is able to incorporate the flexibility of ad hoc networks by allowing multihop transmission. In this paper, we first propose to use dedicated information ports (DIPs) as clusterheads for CMCN; then we analyze the performance of fixed channel assignment (FCA) for downlink transmission in CMCN. Two multi-dimensional Markov chain models are developed to study the call blocking probability. Due to the nature of multihop transmission in CMCN, channel assignment for uplink and downlink transmission is different and unbalanced. We then propose an asymmetric FCA (AFCA) for uplink and downlink transmission in CMCN. By making use of the proposed AFCA for uplink and downlink transmission, we can reduce the call blocking probability significantly as compared with the FCA for traditional single-hop cellular networks. The salient contribution is that the proposed CMCN with AFCA scheme can increase the spectrum efficiency and the system capacity by introducing the structure of CMCN with DIPs for virtual microcells.     

Co-Channel Operation of Macro- and Femtocells in a Hierarchical Cell Structure

In this paper, the feasibility of user-deployed femtocells in the same frequency band as an existing macrocell network is investigated. Key requirements for co-channel operation of femtocells such as auto-configuration and public access are discussed. Methods for femtocell power auto-configuration that ensure a constant cell radius in the downlink, and a low pre-definable interference impact on co-channel macrocells in the uplink are proposed. The theoretical performance of randomly deployed femtocells in such a hierarchical cell structure and the resulting impact on existing co-channel macrocells is analysed for a cellular UMTS network using system level simulations.     

Potentials of smart antennas in CDMA systems and uplinkimprovements

An overview of the application of smart antennas in DS-CDMA systems, including IS-95 and IS-2000, is presented. Since CDMA systems are interference-limited, adaptive antenna arrays have great potential for improving the performance of such systems in terms of capacity, coverage, and quality of service, In this paper, we study the multiple-access interference that affects a CDMA system, and we describe how smart antennas can be implemented in an IS-2000-based mobile communications system. When smart antennas are used at the base station to transmit in narrow beams, the interference on the downlink is reduced, and C/I is improved. This, in turn, increases the system capacity on the downlink or, alternatively, the quality of service is improved. Such gains will prove very beneficial for asymmetric high-speed data applications, requiring much higher bit rates on the downlink than on the uplink. By reducing the base-station receiver's sensitivity, smart antennas can boost the capacity of the reverse link. Results are presented that outline how this reduction can be employed by the system designer on the uplink to increase capacity, reduce the mobile transmit power, or effect a tradeoff between capacity improvement and coverage or range extension under different system-loading scenarios     

Capacity analysis of spectrally overlaid macro/microcellular CDMA systems supporting multiple types of traffic

The reverse link capacity of a spectrally overlaid macrocell/microcell cellular code-division multiple-access system supporting various types of traffic is analyzed. Several narrowband subsystems are overlaid with a wideband subsystem in macrocells, while in a microcell, a single narrowband subsystem is operated with the same spectrum as one of the macrocell narrowband subsystems. Using a typical propagation model, the reverse link signal power and interference are characterized as the relative user signal power and the cross-tier interference factors between the macrocell and the microcell, considering various system parameters. The reverse link capacity of the overlay system is then analyzed. Results show that the dominant parameters affecting the system performance are the spectral overlay ratio and the distance between the microcell and macrocell base stations. In particular, when the distance equals half of the macrocell radius, optimum performance can be achieved by minimizing the cross-tier interference factors. These results can be applied to network planning for future wireless communication services.     

Uplink user capacity in a multicell CDMA system with hotspot microcells

The number of simultaneous users (or user capacity) supportable on the uplink of a multiple-macrocell code division multiple-access (CDMA) system with multiple "hotspot" microcells embedded within is studied. These microcells operate on the same frequency as the macrocells and are installed in regions of high user demand. It is shown that the user capacity depends on how the users are distributed among cells, and that the maximum (called the attainable capacity) occurs when all cells serve roughly the same number of users. The approach builds on a two-cell analysis published previously, for a single microcell embedded in a single macrocell. First, this analysis is expanded upon to estimate the attainable capacity for M macrocells, where the center one contains L microcells. Then the case in which L microcells are distributed randomly among the M macrocells is analyzed. In each case, the formula for attainable capacity is very simple and highly accurate (as demonstrated via simulations) up to reasonably high values of L. For example, with L microcells distributed among M macrocells, the analysis is accurate at least up to eight microcells per macrocell. The analysis and results are general with respect to cell geometries, propagation parameters, and other variables of the two-tier CDMA system.     

Architecture design, frequency planning, and performance analysisfor a microcell/macrocell overlaying system

An innovative hierarchical microcell/macrocell architecture is presented. By applying the concept of cluster planning, the proposed sectoring arrangement can provide good shielding between microcells and macrocells. As a result, underlaid microcells can reuse the same frequencies as overlaying macrocells without decreasing the macrocell system capacity. With the proposed method, microcells not only can be gradually deployed, but they can be extensively installed to provide complete coverage and increase capacity throughout the service area. With these flexibilities, the proposed method allows existing macrocellular systems to evolve smoothly into a hierarchical microcell/macrocell architecture     

Uplink user capacity in a CDMA macrocell with a hotspot microcell: exact and approximate analyses

This paper studies the number of voice users (user capacity) supported on the uplink of a single-macrocell/single-microcell code-division multiple-access system. A "hotspot" microcell is embedded within a larger macrocell and operates over the same bandwidth as the larger cell. Analytic methods are presented for computing user capacity which account for propagation loss, multiple-access interference, power control, and random locations of user terminals, as well as two distinct methods by which users select base stations (tiers). Along with the exact user capacity, a technique for making accurate approximations is also presented. Simulation results verify both the exact and approximate analytical methods. This simulation is also employed to study the capacity gains of a third, more optimal, tier-selection scheme. These results point to differences in capacity performance based on the tier-selection method, as well as on the traffic density within the hotspot region.     

Multiple-access capacity in mobile user satellite systems

The channel capacity of a satellite direct sequence CDMA system is analyzed including the effects of faded user interference, overlapping antenna beams, imperfect equalization of the antenna pattern across an antenna cell, and diversity reception. Simplified models are used to describe the impact of these effects on the channel capacity of single and multiple cofrequency CDMA systems. In a comparison of the uplink and downlink paths, the uplink of the CDMA system is shown to limit the channel capacity because the downlink can utilize code-orthogonality and coherent demodulation. In a multiple system comparison between band-shared CDMA and band-segmented FDMA/TDMA technologies, FDMA/TDMA is shown to provide about the same capacity for uniformly distributed traffic conditions over many cells and dramatically better capacity when traffic is concentrated in one cell. Due to the peak nature of telephony, this result supports the use of band-segmented systems in mobile user satellite systems     

Optimization of Power Control Function for Downlink

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A comparison of frequency-division systems to code-division systems in overloaded channels

In this paper, a frequency-division counterpart of joint power control and sequence design problem for code- division multiple-access (CDMA) systems is solved. Total transmit and receive power minimizations are considered for frequency- division multiplexing (FDM) and frequency-division multiple- access (FDMA) communications over overloaded channels. After the definition of channel overloading for CDMA systems is extended to the frequency-division systems, the user admissibility is characterized by a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of the optimal solution under unequal signal-to- interference-plus-noise ratio constraints at the output of linear receivers and asymmetric data transmission rate constraints among users. The optimal signal power, bandwidth, transmit waveform, and receive waveform are derived for each user as the decision parameters of the optimization problem. It is shown that, if this solution is applied for the uplink users to minimize the total receive power, the optimal FDMA system performs the same as the optimal CDMA system. It is also shown that, if this solution is applied for the downlink users to minimize the total transmit power, the optimal FDM system always outperforms the code-division system that minimizes the extended total squared correlation. Numerical results suggest that the optimal FDM system and the optimal downlink code-division system achieve the same performance when the total transmit power is minimized.     

The capacity achievable with a broadband CDMA microcell underlay toan existing cellular macrosystem

Broadband code division multiple access (B-CDMA) using direct sequence spread spectrum can be used as an overlay to an existing analog or narrowband digital cellular system to provide increased capacity and new data services. In order to achieve significant capacity, it has been shown that both transmit and receive notch filters should be used at the base station. This paper addresses whether the B-CDMA overlay concept can be applied to creating a CDMA microcell underlaying an existing analog macrocell. It is shown that indeed high capacity can be achieved in the microcell on both forward and reverse links, largely independently of the separation between microcell and macrocell bases. Furthermore, in the forward link the effect of neighboring base stations is shown to be negligible. In order to achieve maximum capacity, it is found that transmit and receive notch filters at the microcell base station are invaluable at small separations between micro and macrocells. It is also shown that key parameters which must be properly controlled are the powers of the CDMA base and mobile transmitters relative to their analog counterparts     

Capacity unbalance between uplink and downlink in spectrallyoverlaid narrow-band and wide-band CDMA mobile systems

In this paper, we discuss capacity unbalance between uplink (mobile-to-base) and downlink (base-to-mobile) in future code division multiple access (CDMA) radio networks where both narrow-band and wide-band CDMA systems are coexisted. Since the two links are not operated in an identical condition, their capacities are unequal and either of the links determines the whole system capacity. The purpose of this paper is to examine which link limits the system capacity and what are the limiting factors. To facilitate the examination, “transmission capacity” and “connection capacity” are defined, and simplified formulas are presented to compute those capacities, respectively for uplink and downlink. Signal quality required for each link, effectiveness of power control, spatial distribution of mobile users and other-cell as well as same-cell user interference are usually determining the limiting link. Besides, the traffic unbalance between the links imposed by specific service applications and the network evolution scenarios are also shown to be very influencing factors     

Hierarchical wideband multicarrier CDMA systems: reverse link analysis

The reverse link performance of hierarchical wideband multicarrier code-division multiple-access (MC-CDMA) systems is studied. An MC-CDMA system divides the system bandwidth into several equal narrow subbands that are used to transmit multiple signal waveforms in parallel. MC-CDMA systems are known to be robust to multipath fading and narrowband interference. We propose a hierarchical MC-CDMA system where the microcell(s) occupies a fraction of the available subbands. It is shown that such an architecture is a viable way of supporting microcell traffic while protecting the existing macrocell traffic. The effects of microcell Nakagami fading and power control error are also studied.