Comparison between Soft Handover and Hard Handover in UMTS

Nagia Hussian Mohammed Hussian, Amin Babiker A/Nabi Mustafa

Abstract: This paper addresses some Quality of service uses concerning soft handover and hard handover in UMTS system for both uplink & downlink cases. The performance of the addressed algorithms for the above mentioned topic is evaluated under different scenarios for user equipment (UE). This is conducted using OPNET simulation package.

Keywords: handover, umts