A design of macro-micro CDMA cellular overlays in the existing big urban areas

Author

Ahn, Byungchan ; Yoon, Hyunsoo ; Wan Cho, Jung

Author_Institution

Div. of Comput. Sci., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Taejon, South Korea

Volume

19

Issue

10

fYear

2001

fDate

10/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2094

Lastpage

2104

Abstract

We focus on delivering radio engineers a practical design of macro-micro code division multiple access (CDMA) cellular overlays. First, we review our algorithmic approach to jointly deploy macrocells and microcells over today´s big urban areas having spatially nonuniform traffic distributions. Next, we identify several further issues related to the optimal design of macro-micro cellular overlays and enhance the cell-deploying algorithm to reflect these issues. The numerical results by extensive event-driven simulations show that the resulting macro-micro cellular overlays successfully cope with the existing conditions of today´s big urban areas, such as spatial and temporal traffic distributions and user mobility characteristics. Finally, we discuss the practical guidelines for designing macro-micro cellular overlays in the existing big urban areas

Keywords

code division multiple access; digital simulation; microcellular radio; multiuser channels; statistical analysis; telecommunication traffic; cell-deploying algorithm; code division multiple access; event-driven simulations; macro-micro CDMA cellular overlays; macrocells; microcells; optimal design; spatial nonuniform traffic distribution; temporal traffic distribution; urban areas; user mobility characteristics; Design engineering; Discrete event simulation; Macrocell networks; Microcell networks; Multiaccess communication; Quality of service; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Urban areas; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/49.957324

Filename

957324