Probability distribution of channel holding time in cellular telephony systems

Author

Jedrzycki, Chris ; Leung, Victor C. M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

28 Apr-1 May 1996

Firstpage

247

Abstract

This paper investigates the channel holding time and call inter-arrival distributions in cellular telephony systems. Up until now, it has been generally assumed that both these distributions can be approximated by the negative exponential model. A study is presented which, using real cellular data, determines the actual distributions. It is shown that the negative exponential assumption for channel holding time is not correct and that a lognormal model approximation fits much closer

Keywords

cellular radio; data communication; exponential distribution; land mobile radio; log normal distribution; radio networks; radiotelephony; telecommunication channels; telecommunication traffic; telephony; call interarrival distributions; cellular data; cellular telephony systems; channel holding time; data services; lognormal model approximation; negative exponential model; probability distribution; traffic statistics; Cellular networks; Circuits; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Probability distribution; Safety; Statistical distributions; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Telephony; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1996. Mobile Technology for the Human Race., IEEE 46th

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3157-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1996.503446

Filename

503446