Network Controlled Cell Selection for the High Speed Downlink Packet Access in UMTS

In this paper, the advantage of FCS (Fast Cell Selection) is investigated. To avoid the difficulty in HARQ transmission-state synchronization, FCS is allowed only among the cells (sectors) belonging to the same base station. Two FCS approaches are compared in this paper. The user controlled cell selection (UCCS) selects the serving cell based only on the channel quality seen by the user. While a new network controlled cell selection (NCCS) approach jointly considers channel quality and network loading. It is shown that FCS significantly improves the HSDPA performance at low mobility. Among the FCS schemes, NCCS is superior to UCCS when the load among the cells in the active set is unbalanced.