Effect of Soft and Softer Handoffs on CDMA System Capacity

The effect of soft and softer handoffs on code-division multiple-access (CDMA) system capacity is evaluated for unsectorized and sectorized hexagonal cells according to an average bit energy-to-interference power spectral density, which corresponds to a bit-error rate (BER) of 10/sup -3/. The effect of imperfect sectorization on sectorization efficiency is also considered. On the reverse link, the...