naa a22 4500 510799116 CHVBK 20180411083347.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11277-013-1048-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11277-013-1048-5 Ahmed Bazil Mosul University, Mosul, Iraq aut WCDMA Multiclass Downlink Capacity and Interference Statistics of Cigar-Shaped Microcells in Highways [Elektronische Daten] [Bazil Ahmed] In this paper, the multiclass downlink capacity and the interference statistics of the sectors of a cigar-shaped microcells using wideband code-division multiple-access with soft handover mode are analyzed. The two-slope propagation model with log-normal shadowing is used in the analysis where a model of 8 cigar-shaped microcells is utilized. The performance of the downlink is studied for different [sector range R, standard deviation of the shadowing ( $$\sigma _{1}$$ and $$\sigma _{2})$$ and propagation exponents ( $$\text{ s}_{1}$$ and $$\text{ s}_{2})$$ ]. It is found that increasing the sector range from 500 to 1,000 m will increase the sector downlink capacity. Also, it is found that increasing the value of the propagation parameters ( $$\sigma _{1}$$ and $$\sigma _{2})$$ will reduce the downlink sector capacity. It is noticed that, the effect of changing the propagation exponent $$\text{ s}_{1}$$ is null while increasing the propagation exponent $$\text{ s}_{2}$$ will increase the downlink capacity. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2013 WCDMA nationallicence Multiclass downlink capacity nationallicence Shadowing nationallicence Soft handover (SHO) margin nationallicence Wireless Personal Communications Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 72/2(2013-09-01), 941-956 0929-6212 72:2<941 2013 72 11277 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1048-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1048-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ahmed Bazil Mosul University, Mosul, Iraq aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Wireless Personal Communications Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 72/2(2013-09-01), 941-956 0929-6212 72:2<941 2013 72 11277 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer