Forward link performance of packet data in presence of soft handoff in cellular CDMA

Effects of soft handoff (HO) on forward link performance of packet data service have been presented in this paper. Outage of packet data transmission using code division multiple access (CDMA) is evaluated. Throughput and delay have also been investigated in cellular CDMA in presence of soft HO. Influence of physical layer issues like soft HO parameters, shadowing correlation, power control error (PCE) on packet data performance in forward link has been investigated.