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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Venugopal Veeravalli, Ithaca, NY (US);
Andrew Sendonaris, Houston, TX (US);
Nikhil Jain, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Corporation, Montreal, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
455446 ; 455453 ; 455452 ;
Abstract
Accurate calculation of the probability of outage for a cell within a CDMA network is utilized to relate cell coverage to cell capacity. Based on a desired probability of outage, the coverage of the cell may be calculated for an average number of users within the cell. The calculation is independent of the admission policy employed to achieve the specified average number of users. The resulting closed form expression for the tradeoff between coverage and carried traffic allows an optimal design of a CDMA network.