Contents

10.4

Transmitter Diversity
10.4.1 Transmit Diversity Benefits and Gains
10.4.2 Mobile Terminal Requirements
10.5 Mast Head Amplifiers
10.5.1 MHA Benefit on System Coverage
10.5.2 MHA Impact on System Capacity
10.6 Remote Radio Heads (RRH)
10.6.1 RRH Benefits
10.7 Higher Order Receiver Diversity
10.7.1 Operation and Observed Benefits
10.7.2 Impact to Downlink Capacity
10.7.3 Diversity Reception at Mobile Terminal
10.8 Fixed Beam and Adaptive Beam Forming
10.8.1 Implementation Considerations and Issues
10.8.2 Gains of Beam Forming
10.9 Repeaters
10.9.1 Operating Characteristics
10.9.2 Repeater Isolation Requirements
10.9.3 Repeater Coverage and Capacity Evaluation
10.9.4 Impact on System Capacity
10.10 Additional Scrambling Codes
10.11 Self-Organizing Networks
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11 Co-planning and Inter-operation with GSM

11.1 GSM Co-location Guidelines
11.1.1 The Isolation Requirements
11.1.2 Isolation Mechanisms
11.1.3 Inter-modulation Problems and Counter-measures
11.1.4 Antenna Configuration Scenarios
11.2 Ambient Noise Considerations
11.3 Inter-operation with GSM
11.3.1 Handover between the Operators GSM
and UMTS Networks
11.3.2 Handover with other UMTS Operators
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12 AMR Speech Codecs: Operation and Performance

12.1 AMR Speech Codec Characteristics and Modes
12.2 AMR Implementation Strategies
12.2.1 AMR Network Based Adaptation
12.2.2 AMR Source Controlled Rate Adaptation
12.3 Tradeoffs between AMR Source Rate and System Capacity
in WCDMA
12.4 AMR Performance under Clean Speech Conditions
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