Soft handoff extends CDMA cell coverage and increases reverse link capacity

  • Authors:
  • A. J. Viterbi;A. M. Viterbi;K. S. Gilhousen;E. Zehavi

  • Affiliations:
  • QUALCOMM Inc., San Diego, CA;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The effect of handoff techniques on cell coverage and reverse link capacity is investigated for a spread spectrum CDMA system. It is shown that soft handoff increases both parameters significantly relative to conventional hard handoff