Coverage and capacity trade-off using admission and power controlled CDMA system for wireless internet services in rural environments

In this paper the coverage and capacity of CDMA system is evaluated using admission and power control to serve for low to medium speed internet services, such as digital TV or film/video streaming in rural areas. One of the unique characteristics of CDMA system is that it is possible to trade off between capacity and its coverage, called the cell-breathing. Open loop and closed loop power control can be used to increase the capacity of CDMA system; while admission control can be applied to trade-off between its capacity and the coverage. Computer simulation was conducted to evaluate the power control performance in Rayleigh fading channel. Then semi-analytical evaluation was performed to obtain the coverage-capacity trade-off. The result shows that the capacity of CDMA systems increases when power control was employed. Numerical and semi analytical evaluation show that CDMA coverage and capacity can be traded-off to meet various demand of traffic capacity and cell coverage in rural environments.