Integration of remote microcell with CDMA infrastructure

A method of integrating a remote microcell with at least one face of a code division multiple access (CDMA) communication system capable of signal advancing, the method comprising:

• dropping all active calls from the remote microcell;
• measuring, at an optical time domain reflectometer, a length of a fiber optic connection between a CDMA base station of the CDMA communication system and the remote microcell;
• measuring loss in the fiber optic connection;
• measuring a power output at the remote microcell;
• measuring a power output at the CDMA base station;
• collecting data relating to a total number of radios assigned to the remote microcell being integrated with the CDMA communication system, a number of radios assigned to the remote microcell that are in a CDMA bandwidth that have been removed from service, a transmit and receive antenna attenuation setting for the remote microcell, a remote attenuation level, a baseband combiner and radio attenuation of the remote microcell, and a pn-offset of the remote microcell;
• installing remote microcell hardware at the CDMA base station;
• calculating values using measurement data, the calculated values being a transmit antenna propagation delay, a maximum receive path propagation delay, a maximum transmit differential delay, a sector size, a search window size, power calculation, a total gain, an actual gain, and a CDMA power input level;
• translating the calculated values to allow the remote microcell to function in the CDMA communication system and to provide a sufficient sector size;
• level setting an output power level of the CDMA base station based on the calculated values to adapt the CDMA base station to communicate with the remote microcell;
• and
• testing the CDMA communication system after restoring the CDMA communication system to normal service.