Home / handoff classification

handoff classification

Handoff Candidate Classification in CDMA

The mobile station continuously searches for Pilots to detect the presence of other CDMA signals that have the same carrier frequency and measures the strength (received Ec/Nt) of the pilots.  When the mobile station detects a Pilot of sufficient strength that is not associated with the serving cell/sector, it sends a message to the serving … Read more

Soft Handoff Gain for CDMA

Soft handoff is the term that is normally associated with the fact that a CDMA system makes a connection to a target cell prior to releasing (breaking) from the source site, commonly referred to as “make-before-break”. A hard handoff, associated with AMPS, GSM, or USDC, requires that the signal strength from the target cell be … Read more