Multiple Cell Partitions for Increasing the CDMA-Based Cell Capacity

This paper investigates the impact of cell partitioning in cell capacity of CDMA-based system. We examine the implementation of four partitions per cell as well as the influence of various height of the base station transceiver antenna to the system. We contemplated the urban area as the target, therefore the COST-231 Walfisch – Ikegami is applied as the propagation model. Calculations on the capacity of cell, the link budget (and MAPL) and the radius of each partition, depending on the height of the base station transceiver antenna, are made. The results show that the capacity increases as the number of partitions increases; the height of the base station transceiver affects the radius of the partitions.