Introduction to a New Performance Factor of Soft Handoff for Real-Time Streaming Services

Young-uk CHUNG
Dong-Ho CHO

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E89-B    No.10    pp.2933-2935
Publication Date: 2006/10/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.10.2933
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Wireless Communication Technologies
Keyword: 
soft handoff,  macrodiversity,  real-time streaming service,  

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Summary: 
We describe a new characteristic of soft handoff, call failure when a mobile moves from the handoff region to the normal region, and introduce the metric of region-transition failure probability to more accurately assess the performance of CDMA systems that support real-time video streaming services. This characteristic has not been considered in previous research. Simulations show that this failure must be considered since it significantly degrades system performance.