• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제22권8호
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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.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제24권9B호
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• pp.1624-1630
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• 1999

CDMA 이동 통신 시스템에서는 호를 진행중인 단말기가 인접한 기지국의 서비스 영역으로 이동할 때 호의 계속적인 서비스를 위하여 단말기가 handoff 영역에 있는 동안 인접한 기지국으로부터 동시에 서비스를 받는 soft handoff 방식을 사용한다. 이 때 soft handoff가 성공적으로 이루어지기 위해서는 진행중인 호가 이전의 기지국에서 서비스를 받을 때 사용되던 것과 동일한 frequency assignment와 frame offset을 새로운 기지국으로부터 할당받아야 한다. 새로운 호에 대해 frame offset을 할당할 때 인접한 기지국의 frame offset의 할당 상태를 고려하지 않고 해당되는 기지국의 frame offset의 할당 상태만을 고려할 경우 호가 인접한 기지국으로 soft handoff를 요청할 때 frame offset의 불일치로 인하여 soft handoff가 실패할 확률이 커질 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위하여 인접한 기지국의 frame offset의 할당 상태를 고려하는 새로운 frame offset 할당 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 분석적인 방법을 통하여 새로이 제안된 frame offset assignment algorithm의 성능을 분석한 결과에 의하면 제안된 방법으로 handoff 영역에서 \ulcorner생한 호에 대해 frame offset을 할당할 경우 frame offset의 불일치로 인한 soft handoff blocking probability가 크게 작아지는 것으로 분석되었다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제1권1호
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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.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제21권2호
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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.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제49권8호
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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.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제30권4호
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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.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제34S권8호
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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.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제7권2호
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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.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제25권3A호
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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.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제23권9A호
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• pp.2221-2229
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• 1998

핸드오프는 CDMA 망에서 시스템의 성능과 용량 등 망설계에 영향을 미치는 매우 중요한 변수인데 본 논문에서는 1.9GHz대의 주파수대역에서 전자파전파모델, IS-95A에서 권고한 소프트 핸드오프 알고리즘, 그리고 무선망설계 변수에 대한 연구를 통하여 소프트핸드오프가 CDMA 무선망설계에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위한 시뮬레이션틀을 개발하였다. 이를 이용하여 소프트핸드오프 이득, 소프트핸드오프가 CDMA 시스템 성능과 용량에 미치는 영향등을 종합적으로 분석하였다. 본 셀설계 틀과 분석자료는 PCS와 차세대이동통신과 같은 1.9GHz대역에서의 CDMA 디지털 이동통신환경에서의 무선망설계시에 기지국선정과 시스템 파라미터 최적화 등과 같은 효율적인 무선망설계에 활용될 수 있을 것이다.