Performance of coverage in 3G Radio network

Abstract

There has been an incredible growth in wireless communication technology over the past decade. The significant increment is in subscribers, traffic and data rate. The solution is the Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA). All WCDMA systems have a relation between coverage and capacity. WCDMA radio link budget is mainly designed to estimate the allowable path loss in a 3G system. This result is then used to estimate the cell range covered by a base station. In this project, a GUI is created by using NetBean IDE 6.0 to enable the users to calculate the cell range or Eb/N0 ratio easily. This project also mentioned about the relation between the coverage and Eb/N0 ratio and how they could lead to a better cell range performance.