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Soft handoff extends CDMA cell coverage and increases reverse link capacity

  • Andrew J. Viterbi
  • , Audrey M. Viterbi
  • , Klein S. Gilhousen
  • , Ephraim Zehavi
  • Qualcomm Incorporated

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Abstract

The effect of handoff techniques on cell coverage and reverse link capacity is investigated for a spread spectrum CDMA system. It is shown that soft handoff increases both parameters significantly relative to conventional hard handoff.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1281-1288
Number of pages8
JournalIEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Volume12
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 1994
Externally publishedYes

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