Multi-Channel Assignment Schemes and Handoff Study in CDMA Cellular Systems

The CDMA system promisingly provides more capacity than AMPS. However, providing multi-channels for a CDMA system is requisite for satisfying the demand of capacity. In this paper, three schemes of multi-channel assignment are proposed. Based on computer simulation, performance measures, e.g. blocking probabilities, the overall capacity, the capacity of each channel, and the number of re-accesses, are obtained. Since the same frequency channel may be assigned to two adjacent cells, the effect of soft handoff is also considered. Numerical results demonstrate that scheme 3 (i.e., the random re-selection scheme) performs the best of the proposed three schemes because it provides the highest system capacity while keeping the cost of accessing channels (i.e., in terms of number of channel accesses) to a minimum.     

Hot-spot traffic relief with a tilted antenna in CDMA cellularnetworks

Direct-sequence code division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) cellular networks are highly promising in terms of their potential to provide more capacity than an advanced mobile phone system (AMPS). However, heterogeneous traffic loading causes traffic congestion in a CDMA hot-spot. This paper presents a tilted antenna mechanism for sectored cells in CDMA cellular networks to relieve the congestion in a hot-spot sector. The fixed antenna-tilted mechanism, which only tilts the hot-spot antenna, can provide the merit of traffic balancing. Besides, we design a dynamic antenna-tilted mechanism in which tilting the antennas of the hot spot and its adjacent cell sectors is based on varying the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The dynamic mechanism can automatically tilt the antenna corresponding to the variation of traffic. Consequently, more capacity can be provided than in a fixed tilting mechanism, which only tilts the hot-spot antenna. Another benefit is the traffic-balancing effect with a tilted-antenna mechanism that reduces the transceivers of a hot-spot base station. Therefore, extra facilities are unnecessary for the hot spot than for a normal or light traffic sector     

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.     

Performance study for a microcell hot spot embedded in CDMAmacrocell systems

The code-division multiple-access (CDMA) system can provide more capacity than other systems, and the hierarchical layer of cells is required for system design. However, the problem is whether the same radio frequency (RF) channels used in a CDMA overlayed/underlayed macrocell and microcell structure also obtain a high capacity as in the homogeneous structure. We investigate the interference of uplink and downlink from both the microcell and macrocell under a hierarchical structure. A downlink power control scheme and two power control methods for the uplink are also considered. Performance measures such as blocking probability, C/I, capacity, and service hole area are also obtained by computer simulation. Besides, some extra efforts for a microcell are also noted, such as more power need to be transmitted by a microcell base station (BS) if the same RF channels are used in the hierarchical structure. The capacities of macrocell and microcell in the overlaying/underlaying structure are limited by the uplink and downlink, respectively. With downlink power control, the microcellular capacity can be increased. However, the combination of downlink power control for the microcell and C/I uplink power control for the macrocell causes the overall system capacity to significantly increase     

Performance evaluation for multichannel access schemes in CDMA cellular systems

The CDMA system promisingly provides more capacity than AMPS. However, providing multichannels for a CDMA system is a requisite to satisfy the demanded capacity. In this paper, five schemes of multichannel assignment are proposed. Based on computer simulation, performance measures such as blocking probabilities, the overall capacity, the capacity of each channel and the number of retrials are obtained. Simulation results indicate that the SIR-based selection scheme is preferable to the other schemes. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.