ملخص
Abstract
In order to ensure the promise of anytime-anywhere communication to the customers, Mobile operators must be able to support a large number of users over a large coverage area. So Coverage and Capacity are important issues in the planning process for Third Generation (3G) mobile networks. The planning process aims to allow the maximum number of users sending and receiving adequate signal strength in a cell. In Code division multiple access (CDMA), the Coverage and capacity are not independent of each other as in GSM, it is interference-limited system, meaning that if the traffic increases, the serving cell radius decreases, hence the term cell breathing occurs. This work studies the capacity and coverage of a macrocell CDMA network. The cell breathing effect is studied and a new criteria to link Capacity and Coverage is developed, it is named by Capacity-Coverage Product; CCP. Different designations of CCP formula are given. The influencing of various system parameters on this CCP are studied. Knowing this CCP, the capacity and coverage become straight to estimate. The user distribution is very important issue. Most of previous studies treat user distribution as uniform. This thesis considers the case of non uniform user distributions where a more realistic distribution is chosen. A new interference distribution factor is initiated. The impact of this factor on the capacity and coverage is studied. Existing of Hotspot regions of traffic will cause coverage shrinkage. Installation of hotspot microcells BS inside existing macrocell BS is one possible solution to such situations. In this work a microcell is introduced within the macrocell and a new system parameters are obtained such that the coverage and performance are maintained while the capacity is increased.