Brief describe the advantages and disadvantages of soft handover?


Advantages:
  Overcome fading through macro diversity.
  Reduced Node B power which in turn decreases interference and increases capacity.
  Reduced UE power (up 4dB), decreasing interference and increasing battery life.
Disadvantages:
  UE using several radio links requires more channelization codes, and more resources on the Iub and Iur interfaces

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