@inbook{955f3c4796d141a1a58c2ab926f9b9d1,
title = "Multi-carrier cell structures with angular offset",
abstract = "Macrocellular networks with frequency reuse across cells suffer from high interference at the cell boundaries, resulting in a very uneven distribution of user throughput. In this paper a sector offset configuration for multi-carrier networks is proposed that can significantly improve the cell edge performance without reducing the frequency re-use factor. Simulations for UMTS HSDPA show that for a 3 sector base station transmitting on two carriers the proposed approach can increase the average user throughput by 38\% and the throughput of the worst 5th percentile by 94\%, with a small increase in the total number of handovers. In addition it is shown that the new configuration results in a significantly reduced handover failure rate.",
keywords = "cell edge performance, cell planning, handover, HSDPA, multi-carrier, Sector offset, UMTS, WCDMA",
author = "Holger Claussen and Lester Ho",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1109/PIMRC.2012.6362524",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781467325691",
series = "IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC",
pages = "1179--1184",
booktitle = "2012 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2012",
note = "2012 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2012 ; Conference date: 09-09-2012 Through 12-09-2012",
}