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Performance Evaluation of Soft Handover in a Realistic UMTS Network

Authors
Forkel, Ingo and Schinnenburg, Marc and Wouters, B.
Department of Communication Networks (ComNets), Faculty 6, RWTH Aachen University Kontakt: publications@comnets.rwth-aachen.de

In Proceedings VTC 2003 Spring - Vehicular Technology Conference, Jeju, Korea, 2003.
Publication Date: May, 2003
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Abstract
With the operation of multiple radio links simultaneously in a so-called soft handover situation, the link quality can significantly be improved. On the other hand, additional radio resources are necessary and distributed transmitters cause severe changes in a network's interference situation. This paper focuses on the effects of soft handover applied to a realistically planned UMTS network. As a result, the trade-off between interference mitigation and capacity loss is evaluated by means of dynamic simulation.

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@INPROCEEDINGS{FoScWo_VTC2003,
  AUTHOR          = {Forkel, I. and Schinnenburg, M. and Wouters, B.},
  TITLE           = {Performance Evaluation of Soft Handover in a Realistic UMTS Network},
  JOURNAL         = {Proceedings VTC 2003 Spring - Vehicular Technology Conference},
  YEAR            = {2003},
  MONTH           = {May},
  VOLUME          = {0},
  ADDRESS         = {Jeju, Korea},
  AFFILIATION     = {Department of Communication Networks (ComNets), Faculty 6, RWTH Aachen University},
  ANNOTE          = {UMTS, W-CDMA, Soft Handover, Macro Diversity, Coverag},
  URL             = {http://www.comnets.rwth-aachen.de} 
}