Performance Enhancement in Wcdma Network : Capacity and coverage area enhancement methods for WCDMA

The cellular communication evolution has been very rapid in the past decade, the current mobile communication system family can be categorized into different generations; Analog based first generation (1G), circuit switched second generation (2G), packet switched third generation (3G) and lately Internet Protocol (IP) based fourth generation (4G). However, with the technology developments, each proceeding generation provides better quality, capacity and bandwidth efficient thus allowing wide range of services to be offered.