Power control is a crucial mechanism in CDMA mobile radio networks, which needs to be modeled in SEAMCAT. It is a complex process involving various layers of signaling, measurement and modulation/demodulation procedures. It is not feasible to model signaling, link and chip level details of CDMA power control in network level simulations performed by SEAMCAT due to the complexity and CPU time constraints. Hence, it is necessary to adopt the two-step approach employed widely in the industry for the simulation of CDMA based systems.
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