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A key performance indicator of mobile wireless networks is failure probability of handover calls. In this paper, we propose a Call Admission Control policy which prioritizes handover calls over new calls in WCDMA systems. The OVSF code occupancy of the system is modeled by a Markov chain and the differentiation between handover and new calls is performed at the code level by introducing a “guard code” scheme. The scheme belongs to the well-known family of guard channel schemes and reserves some code capacity to favor the continuation of handover calls over the new calls. As the management of the general case is intractable, we solve certain numerical instances of the problem and manage to calculate several performance metrics like new call blocking and handover failure probabilities and code utilization. We complete our study with simulation results in the case of higher OVSF code tree capacity.
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Skoutas, D.N., Abd El-atty, S.M. & Rouskas, A.N. A Guard Code Scheme for Handover Traffic Management in WCDMA Systems. Int J Wireless Inf Networks 15, 98–104 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-008-0076-7
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