DCS-1900 system configuration

Author

McGuffin, Bruce F.

Author_Institution

Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1995

fDate

25-28 Jul 1995

Firstpage

112

Abstract

DCS-1900 is a proposed PCS system based on the GSM mobile telephone system. Like GSM, many configuration options and parameters must be selected by the base station manufacturer, or system operator. This paper examines parameter effects on system performance, to determine good configuration strategies. Issues considered include frequency plan, power control, base station synchronization, and DTX. A lower bound is presented for DCS-1900 uplink performance, and is used to determine the relationship between capacity and coverage. The best frequency plan is found to be a frequency hopped system with complete frequency reuse in every cell. Collisions between signals are controlled by restricting cell loading. The 1/3 frequency plan is shown to have at least 99% coverage with 0.24 loading, supporting 144 calls per cell in 30 MHz bandwidth

Keywords

cellular radio; channel capacity; digital radio; frequency hop communication; land mobile radio; personal communication networks; power control; radio spectrum management; synchronisation; 1850 to 1990 MHz; 30 MHz; DCS-1900 system configuration; DTX; GSM mobile telephone system; PCS system; base station synchronization; capacity; cell loading; coverage; frequency hopped system; frequency plan; frequency reuse; lower bound; power control; system performance; uplink performance; Base stations; Costs; Frequency synchronization; GSM; Mobile antennas; Personal communication networks; Power control; Speech; Telephony; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1995 IEEE 45th

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2742-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1995.504840

Filename

504840