Shu (Marloon) Wang

Access Channel Enhancements for 1x Rel. F One Eighth Rate Access Probes for Smart Terminals Evolving Random Access Channel for IoT: I Introduction Evolving Random Access Channel for IoT: IV Dumb Access Probes and Smart Access Probes It is well known that the access channel design of 3G cellular mobile network is based on ALOHA models . More specifically it is based on a single-channel single-hub slotted ALOHA plus open-loop power control.  Indeed, there are many possible variations of slotted ALOHA.  Considering access channel configuration, there are the cases with a single shared access channel and the cases with multiple access channels.  Considering network configuration, there are single hub models and multi-hub models. Though multi-channel slotted ALOHA models have been intensively studied in computer engineering domain, a ALOHA model with more than one participating hub and more than one access channel hasn't received enough attention so far. I gues...

Macro-diversity typically means a special communication mode between a single mobile station and multiple base stations in a cellular network. It has been in CDMA standards as soft handoff since the beginning. The people in the industry usually think "soft handoff" and "macro-diversity" are interchangeable in most scenarios. Recently it has been employed for CDMA2000 BCMCS and UMTS MBS too. The basic idea is to coordinate multiple base stations to deliver the same data stream to a mobile receiver in the down links and receive the signals from a mobile station from multiple base stations. Macro-diversity is possible for CDMA soft handoff because there is no hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) for voice data and no fast retransmission is necessary due to the strict delay requirement of voice service. The benefits of doing soft handoff on voice service include reduced transmission power and seamless mobility. On the other hand, it also challenges the mobile station...