Soft handoff extends CDMA cell coverage and increases reverse link capacity
Andrew J. Viterbi, Audrey M. Viterbi, K.S. Gilhousen, Ephraim Zehavi · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 1994
The effect of handoff techniques on cell coverage and reverse link capacity is investigated for a spread spectrum CDMA system. It is shown that soft handoff increases both parameters significantly relative to conventional hard handoff.>