Interference estimation for admission control in multi-service DS-CDMA cellular systems

Wideband code division multiples access (CDMA) is one of the major options for the next generation mobile cellular system. However, there is only limited research on the admission control for CDMA systems containing multiple service classes. In this paper the multi-service CDMA admission control problem is addressed by an approach which is conceptually simple, and yet produces satisfactory results. In our approach the limit on the acceptable interference level in a cell is translated into a constraint on the number of users of each service class in the local and neighboring cells. The randomness of user locations, shadowing and imperfect power control is captured as a whole by a log-normal distribution. Simulation results show that this approach is quite accurate over a wide range of required system outage probabilities.