Capacity and Coverage Increase With Repeaters in UMTS Urban Cellular Mobile Communication Environment
Mohammad Patwary, Predrag Rapajic, Ian Oppermann · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 2005
In this letter, we propose to use repeaters to increase system information capacity in urban areas, where path loss exponents are higher (as much as 3.4 or more). There is at least a 10% increase in coverage area when repeaters are placed in every cell within the network to increase system capacity. The overall system information capacity is doubled at propagation exponent 3.7-3.9.