The performance of a WCDMA radio over fibre access network in macrodiversity mode is investigated. We computed the Eb/N0 for different cases applying the macrodiversity combining method. Our simulation results demonstrate that, for a given service, the capacity increased by 13%-46% (depending on the channel model and the mobile speed) in the case of the macrodiversity link as compared to the single link.
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Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, 2002. The 5th International Symposium on
(Volume:2
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Date of Conference: 27-30 Oct. 2002