Traffic engineering of the radio interface for cellular mobile networks

Author

Everitt, David E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia

Volume

82

Issue

9

fYear

1994

fDate

9/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1371

Lastpage

1382

Abstract

The paper reviews traffic-related issues in the operation of the radio interface in cellular mobile networks operating with FDMA, TDMA, or CDMA technology. The emphasis is on issues which affect the traffic performance of the network, rather than on transmission technology, or transmission quality measures such as bit error rate. The author reviews the important traffic performance measures for cellular systems and the issues of channel assignment, handoff, access control, traffic modeling, and traffic management. Traffic modeling for all types of networks is considered in some depth, both by drawing analogies with fixed-wire networks, and by considering cellular-specific modeling. From the modeling results, he concludes that reuse-based networks such as FDMA and TDMA possess quite different traffic characteristics from CDMA networks

Keywords

cellular radio; code division multiple access; digital radio systems; frequency allocation; frequency division multiple access; mobile radio systems; reviews; telecommunication network management; telecommunication traffic; time division multiple access; CDMA; FDMA; TDMA; access control; cellular mobile networks; cellular systems; channel assignment; handoff; radio interface; reuse-based networks; traffic management; traffic modeling; traffic performance; traffic-related issues; Access control; Bit error rate; Cellular networks; Communication system traffic control; Frequency division multiaccess; Multiaccess communication; Paper technology; Telecommunication traffic; Time division multiple access; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Proceedings of the IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/5.317083

Filename

317083