Effects of Imperfect Power Control and User Mobility on a CDMA Cellular Network

Code-division multiple-access (CDMA) is one of the major candidate access techniques for third generation systems. A great deal of effort has been devoted to the study of the capacity it can support. This paper presents analytical derivations which allow the determination of the link availability in the presence of user mobility and power control imperfections in a CDMA network; moreover, it provides the guidelines which permit the implementation of a simple and flexible simulation tool which is independent of the specific CDMA implementations. As a matter of fact, the reported concepts can be applied to any asynchronous CDMA system, i.e., they hold both for the American Standard IS-95 and for the European Community Standard developed in the framework of the RACE CODIT Project.

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