Analysis on coverage and capacity in adoption of repeater systems in CDMA2000

CDMA2000 is the 3rd generation (3G) communication system based on the 2/sup nd/ generation standard, IS-95. Because the 3G system has more complex features than IS-95, more accuracy analysis on coverage and capacity in adoption of repeater systems are needed. Especially, the issue of whether to use a base station or repeater system to cover the shadow region effectively, taking quality of service (QoS) and economy into consideration, is of critical importance for mobile communication engineers. In this paper, QoS related system capacity and coverage analysis results are provided by simulation. We describe the advantages and disadvantages of repeater systems as a new remote cell with real CDMA2000 environment.