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WCDMA Uplink Capacity of a Long Tunnel Cigar-shaped Microcells for Underground Train Service

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In this paper, the capacity and the interference statistics of the sectors of the cigar-shaped WCDMA microcells are studied using the hybrid model of propagation. A model of nine microcells in a metro tunnel is used to analyze the uplink capacity and the interference statistics. The capacity and the interference statistics of the microcells in metro tunnels are studied in this work for different propagation parameters, antenna side lobe levels, sector ranges and bends losses.

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  1. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Bazil Taha-Ahmed

  2. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Miguel Calvo-Ramón & Leandro de Haro-Ariet

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Taha-Ahmed, B., Calvo-Ramón, M. & de Haro-Ariet, L. WCDMA Uplink Capacity of a Long Tunnel Cigar-shaped Microcells for Underground Train Service. Int J Wireless Inf Networks 15, 90–97 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-008-0075-8

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