N. P. Singh and Brahmjit Singh
Performance of Soft Handover Algorithm in Varied Propagation Environments
1834 - 1838
2008
2
9
International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/5147
https://publications.waset.org/vol/21
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
CDMA cellular networks support soft handover,
which guarantees the continuity of wireless services and enhanced
communication quality. Cellular networks support multimedia
services under varied propagation environmental conditions. In this
paper, we have shown the effect of characteristic parameters of the
cellular environments on the soft handover performance. We
consider path loss exponent, standard deviation of shadow fading and
correlation coefficient of shadow fading as the characteristic
parameters of the radio propagation environment. A very useful
statistical measure for characterizing the performance of mobile radio
system is the probability of outage. It is shown through numerical
results that above parameters have decisive effect on the probability
of outage and hence the overall performance of the soft handover
algorithm.
Open Science Index 21, 2008