8.5.3 CDMA uplink Power Control Methodology in SEAMCAT (VOICE ONLY)

Performance characteristics of individual links to be used in the power control module of SEAMCAT are generated a priori from link level simulations. This usually includes several mappings between requested link quality (e.g. block error rate, BLER) and required transmit power of mobile stations/base stations. For generating such mappings in form of “look up tables”, link level simulations involve multipath fading, physical layer transceiver algorithms, e.g. modulation/demodulation and coding/decoding, as well as power control procedures. Different mulipath fading channels (e.g. the ITU channel models) are used to model various configurations, e.g. indoor, outdoor, pedestrian, vehicular, etc.

In CDMA UL, the sum of received C/I values in two sectors should meet the C/I requirements specified by the link level simulation data. In CDMA Uplink, the link level is a function of Eb/No.