• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.1659-1667
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• 1997

In DS-CDMA cellular systems, using the same frequency channel at the adjacent cells simultaneously makes soft handoff possible. In soft handoff, mobiles use multiple radio resources for the space diversity of signal in the overlapped region. The previous traffic models of hard handoff are not applicable to the system with soft handoff due to switching radio channels in that region. The handoff rate can be calculated by the mobility of mobiles, which is a function of the size and shape of a cell, and the speed and density of the mobiles. In this paper, we propose an analytical traffic model to study the soft handoff rate. We assume that the system uses a two-way handoff scheme for practical purposes, which connects only two cells to a mobile during soft handoff. We performed a computer simulation to confirm the accuracy of the proposed soft handoff model. The simulation results show good agreement with the analytical model.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.9B
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• pp.1624-1630
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• 1999

Code division multiple access (CDMA) is a promising air interface technique for cellular systems. When an MS (Mobile Station) moves to an adjacent cell, the handoff between the serving cell and the target cell is needed. Compared with the hard handoffs, the soft handoffs between two CDMA channels with the identical frequency assignments and frame offsets can provide a better quality of service by minimizing the undesirable ping pong phenomenon of back-and forth handoffs between two adjacent cells in conventional hard handoffs. For the soft handoff of a call to an adjacent cell to be successful, the adjacent cell should assign to the call the same frame offset as that being used in the original cell by the call. In this paper, considering the assignment states of the frame offsets of the adjacent cells, a frame offset assignment algorithm for the originated call is proposed. And analytic method for the handoff blocking probability due to the lack of the frame offset capacity is also presented to show the advantage of the proposed algorithm with respect to the soft handoff blocking probability.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.45-49
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• 2005

If the service provider provides mobile service with mobile switching centers that use different handoff message format, the soft-handoff between mobile switching centers is not available and the hard-handoff scheme is used instead. When this occurs, calls are often disconnected or there is an interruption of service. This can be very annoying to a mobile user. We propose the handoff subsystem of the ATM switch which provides the soft-handoff between wireless cells under the control of different MSCs. The proposed handoff subsystem transforms the handoff message format of the source MSC to that of the destination MSC. It also provides efficient routing scheme that distributes handoff packets to balance the traffic load.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.394-408
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• 1996

In this paper, we classify the transfer method of overflowed traffic from microcell to macrocell in micor/macro overlaid PCS system using CDMA technology, and analyze the traffic characteristics of traffic transfer methods. Soft-handoff is charaterized by communications with a new bastation on the same CDMA frequency assignment before terminating communications with the old basestation. Therefore, soft-handoff is superior to hard-handoff with respect to Grade Of Service, but it decreases the carried traffic of system. Therefore, we analyze the effect of soft-handoff with respect to handoff area variation. In order to analyze soft-handoff effect, we resolve the probability of dewelling time in soft-handoff area, and calculates the carried traffic of microcell using this result.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.49 no.8
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• pp.481-490
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• 2000

This paper analyzes interference power, Erlang capacity, the number of handoff occurrences, and call blocking probability with respect to the cell radius, the soft handoff region, and the mobile's velocity in a CDMA hierarchical cellular system. The microcell cellular system has the higher Erlang capacity than the macrocell cellular system. However, the microcell cellular system, which has a high system capacity through frequency reuse has the call blocking probability higher than macrocell cellular system. Also the interference power and the call blocking probability are decreased with the operation of soft handoff. Therefore, this paper presents the optimization of soft handoff region so as to maximize system's Erlang capacity with the low the call blocking probability according to mobile's velocity in the CDMA hierarchial cellular system.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.277-284
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• 2004

CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) is a promising air interface technique for digital cellular systems. The soft handoff between base stations is one of many important features of CDMA for the mobile stations crossing the cell boundaries. The service areas of MSC's (Mobile Switching Centers) are defined as the unions of the service areas of the base stations connected to MSC's and are assumed to have hexagonal shapes. An analytical approach to the performance analysis of the link between MSC's for supporting the inter-MSC soft handoff scheme will be developed to obtain the probability that a soft handoff to an adjacent MSC will be blocked due to the shortage of the link capacity. Also, the rate of new connection establishments that are requested by the mobile stations moving to the service area of an MSC according to the inter-MSC soft handoff scheme will be obtained.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.34S no.8
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• pp.1-9
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• 1997

Soft handoff provided in CDMA cellular system has much advantage such as better service quality, interference control and low call dropping probability. In this paepr, we propose an optimum resource reservationscheme for handoff calls in the CDMA cellular system to increase the soft handoff probability in handoff. In the proposed scheme, resources of each frquency channel are reserved for handoff according to the number of its neighbot cells serving the same frequency channel. A performance analysis shows that the soft handoff probability of the proposed scheme is higher than that of conventional scheme disregarding the condition of frquency assignment of neighbot cells, and that ever frequency channel served by neighbor cells should reserve more than one traffic channel for handoff to get good performance.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.153-165
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• 1998

In the Is-95 soft handoff scheme of CDMA, there occurs a tradeoff between improving quality due to the space diversity and additional resource management like updates of the active set during soft handoffs. In addition, if a mobile terminal is alternating two adjacent cells, a well-known phenomenon called ping-ping causes the resource management to be seriously degraded. By noting that in general the probability that a user initiates additional handoffs is exponentially decreased as the user has already handed over one or more times, we present a soft handoff algorithm making use of handoff profiles of mobile terminals to improve resource utilization. In the proposed algorithm the number of handoffs made so far during the call is recorded in the mobile profile and the profile data is used for adjusting handoff parameters such as the value of add or drop threshold (T_ADD or T_DROP). Through simulations, the result of the proposed algorithm is shown to improve the handoff performance by lowering the number of handoffs while simultaneously reducing resource waste.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.3A
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• pp.334-341
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• 2000

This paper presents an analysis of the capacity, the interference of adjacent cells of a CDMA cellular system, depending on the soft handoff region and log-normal shadowing. The optimum soft handoff region is chosen by using Erlang capacity. It is shown that when the soft handoff region increases, the Erlang capacity increase due to a reduction of the interference power of adjacent cells. But if the region is increased above a certain value, there is no improvement in the system’s capacity. Furthermore as the standard deviation of the log-normal shadowing's normal distribution factor increases, the soft handoff region has to be increased linearly to achieve the same Erlang capacity.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.9A
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• pp.2221-2229
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• 1998

Handoff is an important parameter for system performance and capacity analysis in CDMA cell planning. In this paper, simulation tool for analyzing the effects of soft handoff on cell planning of CDMA network is developed by studying propagation model in 1.9GHz frequency specrum, soft hadnoff algorithm given by IS-95, and several parameters for CDMA cell planning. By using the tool, soft handoff gain and effects of soft handoff on cDMA system performance and capacity are analyzed. Research results and simulation tool developed in this paper can be used for optimal CDMA cell planning for PCS and IMT-2000 in 1.9GHz frequency spectrum such as locating base station and parameter optimization.