Coverage and capacity of WCDMA systems with beam steering antennas

Author

Sousa, V.A.Jr. ; De Lima, Carlos H M ; Rodrigues, Emanuel B. ; Cavalcanti, Francisco R P ; Brag, A.R.

Author_Institution

Wireless Telecom Res. Group, Fed. Univ. of Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

6-9 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

826

Abstract

The goal of this contribution is to discuss the benefits of beam steering antennas on downlink dedicated channels (DCHs) of the WCDMA-FDD system, regarding coverage and capacity aspects. Our studies are based on a software tool (WIDE_sim- WCDMA downlink dynamic system level simulator), which performs slot-based dynamic simulations of the WCDMA radio access network on the forward link direction. The multicell environment and user mobility are taken into account, aiming at a combined evaluation of radio resource management (RRM) and smart antenna strategies. The RRM algorithms implemented in the simulator are: power-based call admission control, power allocation, power control (open loop and inner loop) and soft(er) handover.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; adaptive antenna arrays; array signal processing; beam steering; cellular radio; code division multiple access; radio access networks; 3G system capacity; DCH; RRM; UMTS; WCDMA downlink dynamic system level simulator; WCDMA-FDD system coverage; beam steering antennas; cellular networks; downlink dedicated channels; inner loop power control; multicell environment; outer loop power control; power allocation; power-based call admission control; radio access network forward link; radio resource management; slot-based dynamic simulation; smart antenna strategies; soft handover; user mobility; Base stations; Beam steering; Downlink; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Mobile communication; Multiaccess communication; Multiple access interference; Object oriented modeling; Resource management; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2003. VTC 2003-Fall. 2003 IEEE 58th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7954-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2003.1285136

Filename

1285136