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Space diversity--The BTS transmits and receive signals with several independent antennas or at different
sites to ensure attenuation dependency between signals. Since these signals are in different geographic
environments during transmission, the attenuation of each signal is different too. In this case, the
selective combination technology is adopted to select an output with powerful signal, thus reducing the
influence on signals caused by factors like the landform.
Both the BTS and MS use Rake (multipath) receivers to perform diversity receiving and combine
signals with different transmission delay. For a CDMA system with the channel bandwidth of 1.23MHz,
when the delay of signals from two different paths is 1us (that is, when the difference between these two
paths is about 0.3KM), the Rake receivers can extract the signals without confusing them. (One chip is
equivalent to 1/1.26M=0.8us. If two received multipath signals are less than one chip, the CE
demodulation chip will combine them into one multipath signal. However, such case is rare.)
Soft handover also serves the space diversity purpose. During soft handover, an MS will contact
multiple BTSs simultaneously, select the best signal from them and send it to the switch.
Frequency diversity--Since the frequency is selective for attenuation, when the interval of two
frequencies is more than the channel-related bandwidth, the attenuation signals of these two received
attenuation signals will be irrelevant. Generally, the relevant bandwidth in urban areas is 50kHz and that
in suburban areas is 250kHz. However, the bandwidth of a CDMA channel is 1.23MHz, which far
exceeds the relevant bandwidth requirements no matter in urban or in suburban areas. Therefore, the
CDMA broadband transmission itself is frequency diversity.
Timer diversity--Methods like symbol interleave, error check and error correction encoding are adopted.
2. Power control
The capacity of the CDMA system is restricted to interference between MSs within the system. If the
minimum required S/N ratio is achieved when the signal from every MS reaches the BTS, the system
capacity will reach the maximum value. The objective of power control is to maintain high
communication quality without affecting other users occupying the same channel. Power control can be
divided into forward power control (from the BTS to MSs) and backward power control (from MSs to
the BTS). In addition, backward power control can be further divided into open-loop and closed-loop
backward power control.
(1) Forward power control
Forward power control is a way for the BTS to assign different traffic channels with different power.
Different MSs may be at different distances and in different environments and the transmission loss
from the BTS to every MS is different too. Therefore, the BTS should control the TX power and assign
the adequate power to each user's forward traffic channel.
(2) Backward power control
Backward power control can be subdivided into open-loop and closed-loop. Open-loop power control is
self-adjustment of the TX power by MSs, which is active. Closed-loop power control indicates that an
MS performs TX power adjustment according to the command passively received from the BTS.
6. Soft handover
In this case, an MS needs not to break its link with the previous BTS when communicating with a new
BTS. The advantages of this mode are as follows:
(1) Seamless handover
(2) Reduction of call drop possibility
(3) Reduction of the TX power of an MS in the handover area, which is implemented via diversity
receiving. Reduction of the TX power facilitates increase of the backward capacity.
Disadvantages:
(1) More hardware devices (channel boards) have to be added.
(2) The forward capacity is reduced. However, since the forward capacity is more than the backward
capacity in the CDMA system, appropriate reduction of the forward capacity will not lead to capacity
reduction of the entire system.
7. Voice activation
In typical full duplex two-way calls, the duty ratio of every call is less than 35%. The CDMA system is
designed with the voice activation technology. In this way, the transmission rate is reduced when there is
no talk, thus reducing inference on other users and nearly doubling the capacity. In other systems, since
there is some delay for channel reallocation in case of idleness, it is very difficult to use this technology.
8. Frequency reuse and sectorization
In the CDMA system, every cell can use the same band. When the cell uses a directional antenna (1,200
sectorized antenna), the interference can be reduced by 1/3 and the capacity of the entire system is
increased by three times.
9. Low Eb/N0 value and high-redundancy error correction encoding
The Eb/N0 value is the proportion of the energy per bit over the noise power spectrum density, which is
the standard measuring the digital modulation and encoding mode quality factors. Since the CDMA
channel band is very high, a high-redundancy error correction encoding technology can be adopted. In
this way, a lower Eb/N0 value can be used. In the CDMA system, a forward error correction code and
very effective digital demodulator are used, which reduces the TX power and increases the system
capacity.
Voice Call
The voice call refers to calls in the voice service process, including Call Origination and Paging. Now,
we will take the MS 's call origination for example. The appropriate flow is as follows:
(8) The MS sends a reply MS acknowledgement message to the BS and sends a vacant traffic channel
frame.
(9) The BS sends a service connection message to the MS to specify the call service option
configuration. The MS starts to process services according to the specified service configuration.
(10) The MS sends a message to the BS, showing that the service connection is successful.
(11) The BS sends an assignment complete message to the MSC.
(12) The MSC sends a ringback tone to the MS.
Voice Handover
Voice handover refers to handover in the voice service process, which can be divided into multiple
Handover Types, including Soft Handover, Softer Handover ,Hard Handover and Semi-soft Handover.
Now, we will take the soft/softer handover flow for example. The appropriate flow is as follows:
(7) The target BS returns a traffic channel state message to the source BS.
(8) The source BS sends a handover indication message to the MS to add the new cell into the effective
set to boot the MS to perform handover operation.
(9) After receiving the handover indication message, the MS sends an acknowledgement command to
the source BS.
(10) The MS sends a handover complete message, indicating that the handover indication message has
been successfully processed.
(11) The source BS sends a BTS acknowledgement command as a reply to the received handover
complete message.
(12) The source BS sends a handover complete message to the MSC.
Voice Release
Voice release refers to release initiated in the voice service, including MS-initiated and MSC-initiated
release.
Now, we will take MS-initiated release for example. The appropriate flow is as follows:
Whether MS Is Connected
Whether PCF Is
with PCF
Connected with PDSN
Data Call
The data call refers to a call in the data service process, which includes call origination and paging.
Now, we will take the MS call origination for example. The appropriate flow is as follows:
Data Handover
Data handover refers to the handover in the data service process. Since the handover flow on a basic
traffic channel is the same as that of the voice service, we will only describe the handover flow on the
PCF, including MS handover in the Dormant and Active states (simply called Dormant handover and
Active handover.
1. Normal flow of Dormant handover
(1) When the MS location changes (from the coverage range of the source BSC system to that of the
target BSC system), it sends a call origination message to the target BSC. After receiving this message,
the target BSC system sends an acknowledgement message to the MS.
(2) The target BSC system constructs a CM service request message, sends it to the MSC and start
wireless resource allocation. After receiving this message, the MSC sends an assignment request
message to the target BSC.
(3) The target BSC sends a link setup message to the target PCF. The target PCF and PDSN set up a
connection and removes the connection set up between the source PCF and PDSN. After setup is
finished, the target PCF sends a message showing setup success to the target BSC.
(4) The target BSC sends a message to the MSC. After receiving this message, the MSC sends a clear
command to the source BSC. The call is still in the Dormant state.
2. Normal flow of Active handover
(1) When the MS location changes (from the coverage range of the source BSC system to that of the
target BSC system), the source BSC sends a handover request to the MSC. Then, the MSC sends a
handover request message with hard handover indication to the target BSC.
(2) The target BSC sends a link setup message to the target PCF. After the link between the target BSC
and target PCF is set up, the target BSC sends a handover request acknowledgement message to the
MSC. The MSC prepares handover from the source BSC to the destination BSC and sends a handover
command to the source BSC.
(3) The source BSC disconnects with the source PCF. The source PCF stops data transmission to the
MS. The source BSC sends a common handover direction message to the MS via the air interface. After
receiving this message, the MS sends an acknowledgement message.
(4) The source BSC sends a handover start message to the MSC and reminds the MS of handover to the
target BSC channel.
(5) The MS sends a handover complete message to the target BSC. The destination BSC sends a BSC
Ack sequence number to the MS via the air interface. The destination BSC sends a connection request to
the destination PCF. The target PCF sets up connection with the PDSN and disconnect the source PCF
and PDSN. After connection setup, the target BSC sends a handover complete message to the MSC,
indicating that the MS's hard handover is successful.
(6) After receiving this message, the MSC sends a clear command to the source BSC and the source
BSC disconnects with the source PCF. After disconnection, the source BSC sends a clear complete
message to the MSC, indicating that the clear operation has been completed.
Data Release
Data release refers to release initiated in the data service, which can categorized as follows according to
the MS state:
1. Call release from the Active to Dormant state. The call flow can be divided into release initiated from
t he MS and that initiated from the BS.
2. Call release from the Active to Null state. The call flow can be further divided into release initiated
from the MS and that initiated from the PDSN.
3. Call release from the Dormant to Null state, which especially refers to the PDSN-initiated release.
Now, we will take the MS-initiated call release flow from the Active to Dormant state for example. The
appropriate flow is as follows: