Effect of Soft Handoff Technique on CDMA Cell Coverage in a Lognormally Shadowed Channel

전파음영 채널 환경에서 소프트 핸드오프 기법이 CDMA 셀룰러 시스템의 셀 커버리지에 미치는 영향

  • Oh, Hyon-Kyu (Dept.of Computer and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Kim, Hang-Rae (Dept.of Computer and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Kim, Nam (Dept.of Computer and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
  • 오현규 (충북대학교 정보통신공학과) ;
  • 김항래 (충북대학교 정보통신공학과) ;
  • 김남 (충북대학교 정보통신공학과)
  • Published : 2001.10.01

Abstract

In this paper, the effect of soft handoff technique on CDMA cell coverage is analyzed in a lognormally shadowed channel, which uses the Hata propagation model, Also, the rate of increase for the cell coverage is analyzed by calculating the hard and soft handoff margin. When the outage probability is 0.02 and the standard deviation of the received signal is 2.5 dB in a lognormally shadowed channel, the transmit power of the mobile station which is located in the cell boundary is increased by the hard handoff margin of 5.13 dB and by the soft handoff margin of 3.68 dB, respectively. So, the rate of increase for the cell coverage is 1.39 in case of using the soft handoff technique. It is shown that if the (E$\_$b//N$\_$0/)$\_$req/ value is 7 dB, the cell coverage of the CDMA cellular system with soft handoff technique in city area is 3.33 km in case of the 850 MHz frequency and 1.36 km in case of the 1900 MHz frequency. Also, the accurate cell coverage with soft handoff technique is supported that could be serviced by the base-station in CDMA cellular system.

본 논문에서는 로그노말(log-normal) 분포된 전파음영(shadowing) 채널 환경에서 소프트 핸드오프 기법이 CDMA 셀룰러 시스템의 셀 커버리지에 미치는 영향을 Hata 전파 모델을 사용하여 분석한다. 또한 전파음영에 따른 하드 핸드오프 마진과 소프트 랜드오프 마진을 계산하여 셀 커버리지 증가율을 산출한다. 전파음영 채널환경에서 차단 확률(outage probability)이 0.02이고, 수신신호 전력의 표준편차가 2.5 dB이면 셀 경계 부근에 위치한 이동국의 송신 전력은 5.13 dB의 하드 핸드오프 마진과 3.68 dB의 소프트 핸드오프 마진만큼 증가한다. 따라서 소프트 핸드오프 기법을 사용함으로서 얻을 수 있는 셀 커버리지 증가율은 1.39가 된다. ( $E_{b/}$ $N_{0}$)$_{req}$ 값을 7 dB로 가정하면, 도심지역에서 소프트 핸드오프 기법을 사용하는 CDMA 셀룰러 시스템의 셀 커버리지는 주파수가 850 MHz 일 때 3.33 km이고, 1900 MHz일 때 1.36 km가 된다는 것을 알 수 있다. 또한 소프트 핸드오프 기법을 사용한 CDMA 셀룰러 시스템에서 기지국이 서비스 할 수 있는 정확한 셀 커버리지를 제공한다.다.다.다.

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