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Impacts of GPS Synchronization Loss on TD-SCDMA Network Performance
Ji Shuping, Liu Zhijian, Dong Hui
ZTE Communications    2010, 8 (2): 43-47.  
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In Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) systems, the Global Positioning System (GPS) signal is often blocked or experiences interference. As a result, the GPS satellite cannot be found and synchronization cannot occur. Long out-of-sync periods can lead to timing differences between base stations, and if these differences are too large, they can affect the ability of Mobile Stations (MS) to search neighboring cells. This can also affect cell switchover, and cause Downlink Pilot Time Slot (DwPTS) to interfere with Uplink Pilot Time Slot (UpPTS). All these manifest as handover failures, call dropouts during handover, and a declining rate of call completion. As a consequence, user experience within the network is diminished. Researchers have found that when GPS synchronization is lost for more than 4 chips, network quality deteriorates noticably. When the loss is more than 10 chips, the MS may fail to locate a neighboring cell. When the loss is below 16 chips, the interference of DwPTS with UpPTS is not obvious in the first and second circles of the GPS out-of-sync cells. Studies show that, to protect network performance, the TD-SCDMA system allows for up to 4 chips of timing difference in the case of GPS synchronization loss.
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TD-SCDMA Networking Strategy with Interference Between Indoor and Outdoor Networks
Ji Shuping , Zhao Libo , Dong Hui
ZTE Communications    2009, 7 (3): 54-59.  
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The High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA ) technology is employed for the data service in the Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA ) mobile communication system. Theoretically, the HSDPA peak data throughput per Time Slot (TS ) available in the terminals reaches 560 kb/s. Since the data service often occurs indoors, flexible TS allocation between uplink and downlink is applied in TD-SCDMA networking. That is, TS1 and TS2 are uplink time slots and TS3, TS4, TS5 and TS6 are downlink time slots in the indoor cell; and symmetry TS allocation is made for the outdoor cell. In the intra-frequency cell network, it can cause intra-frequency interference between cells. So the research on the intra-frequency crossed time slots interference is done and the suggestions on the intra-frequency crossed time slots networking strategy are proposed in this paper.
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