Modeling and performance analysis of multi-service wireless CDMA cellular networks using smart antennas

In this paper, we present an analytical model to assess the blocking capacity of multi-service code division multiple access (CDMA) systems. We include smart antenna systems in our model and show how the capacity of CDMA systems can be improved if smart antennas are employed at the base stations. Applying smart antennas can actually transform CDMA systems from being interference limited to being channel-code limited. To investigate this effect, we extend our model to include the limitation of channelization codes in CDMA-based universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) systems. From the point of view of the call admission control (CAC) in a smart antenna CDMA system, we can either accept the capacity loss due to code limitation, or we can additionally apply space division multiple access (SDMA) techniques to re-use channelization codes and thus re-approach the capacity which is obtained if no code limitation is considered. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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