1xEV-DO system-level simulator based on measured link-level data

Abstract

1/spl times/EV-DO systems are being deployed widely for high speed wireless data communications. A 1/spl times/EV-DO system-level simulator is developed to evaluate the forward link capacity in an environment of multi-cell, multi-user, and mixed traffic of HTTP, FTP, NRV, and WAP, using measured link-level data, such as data rate transition thresholds and FER from HPEOS (high rate packet data performance evaluation and optimization system for cdma2000 1/spl times/EV-DO). The performance of the 1/spl times/EV-DO system is evaluated in terms of utilization, service throughput, over-the-air (OTA) throughput, and packet delay for four different traffic types, by using the system-level simulator.