Outage-based fuzzy call admission controller with multiuser detection for WCDMA systems

Abstract

An outage-based fuzzy call admission controller with multiuser detection (OFCAC-MUD) is proposed for wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) systems. The OFCAC-MUD determines the new call admission based on the uplink signal-to-interference ratios from home and adjacent cells and system outage probabilities. The OFCAC-MUD possesses both the effective reasoning capability of a fuzzy logic system and the aggressive processing ability of MUD. Simulation results reveal that OFCAC-MUD without power control (PC) improves the system capacity by 70.5% as compared to an SIR-based CAC-RAKE with perfect PC. It also enhances the system capacity by 53.9% as compared to an OFCAC-RAKE with perfect PC, by 6.7% as compared to an SIR-based CAC-MUD without PC and by 12.9% as compared to an OFCAC-MUD with perfect PC, given the same outage probability requirements. Moreover, OFCAC-MUD can prevent the violation of outage probability requirements in the hotspot environment, which is hardly achieved by SIR-based CAC.