This chapter presents the WCDMA air interface, referred also as UMTS terrestrial radio access (UTRA), developed by the third-generation partnership project (3GPP). 3GPP has the goal to harmonize and standardize in detail the similar proposals from E
Driven by the rapid escalation of the wireless capacity requirements imposed by advanced multimedia
applications (e.g., ultra-high-definition video, virtual reality etc.), as well as the dramatically increasing
demand for user access required for the