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Cell Coverage Based on Calculation of the Voice-Data Erlang Capacity in a WCDMA Reverse Link with Multi-rate Traffic  

Kwon, Young-Soo (Dept. of Digital Broadcasting, Juseong College)
Han, Tae-Young (Dept. of Computer & Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
Kim, Nam (Dept. of Computer & Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science / v.15, no.4, 2004 , pp. 387-396 More about this Journal
Abstract
A scheme to evaluate the number of users and cell coverage of a WCDMA supporting multi-rate traffic is newly presented through calculation of the realizable Erlang capacity from a derived blocking probability and the path loss from the COST231 Walfisch-Ikegami(W) model. We evaluate the voice-data Erlang capacities at various data rates of 15 kbps to 960 kbps and it is shown that they have a linear relationship to each other. When the E$\_$b//N$\_$o/ is low from 4 ㏈ to 3 ㏈ in case of voice capacity of 50 Erlang at 8 kbps, the result shows the increase for the data capacity of 10 Erlang and the enlargement of 100 m for the cell coverage at low rate of 15 kbps, and the increase of 0.11 Erlang and the enlargement of 40 m at high rate of 960 kbps. The increase of the blocking probability results in the increase of the Erlang capacity, but not an effect on the cell coverage, and the increase of active users in a cell results in the decrease of the coverage.
Keywords
WCDMA; Multi-Rate Traffic; Blocking Probability; Erlang Capacity; Cell Coverage;
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