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The aim of the present paper is to show that stochastic geometry provides an efficient computational framework allowing one to predict geometrical characteristics of large CDMA networks such as coverage or soft-handoff level. The general idea consists in representing the location of antennas and/or mobile stations as realizations of stochastic point processes in the plane within a simple parametric class, which takes into account the irregularities of antenna/mobile patterns in a statistical way. This approach leads to new formulas and simulation schemes allowing one to compute/estimate the spatial averages of these local characteristics in function of the model parameters (density of antennas or mobiles, law of emission power, fading law etc.) and to perform various parametric optimizations.
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Baccelli, F., Błaszczyszyn, B. & Tournois, F. Spatial Averages of Coverage Characteristics in Large CDMA Networks. Wireless Networks 8, 569–586 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020321501945
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