Improving capacity in a GSM system with DCS1800 and dual band mobiles

Author

Tegler, Susanne ; Alexius, Staffan ; Lind, Patric ; Ljunggren, Tommy

Author_Institution

Telia Res. AB, Malmo, Sweden

Volume

4

fYear

1994

fDate

18-23 Sep 1994

Firstpage

1162

Abstract

The capacity of a GSM system can be improved in several ways. This paper focuses on a GSM system complemented with DCS1800. The capacity of a combined GSM and DCS1800 system with GSM mobiles and dual band mobiles has been simulated. Two types of dual band mobiles have been studied. They are both able to set up a call in either system. But only one of them can also change system at handover. The conclusion of the paper is that the dual band mobiles that cannot change between GSM and DCS1800 during a call are not suitable when the coverage differs between the two systems. The dual band full system handover improves the capacity approximately nine times, under Swedish conditions, when each GSM cell are complemented with an equal sized DCS1800 cell

Keywords

cellular radio; channel capacity; telecommunication traffic; DCS1800; GSM system; Swedish conditions; call set up; capacity; cellular network; dual band full system handover; dual band mobiles; simulation; Distributed control; Dual band; Europe; Frequency; GSM; Interference; Network servers; Personal communication networks; Traffic control; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 1994. Wireless Networks - Catching the Mobile Future., 5th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

The Hague

Print_ISBN

90-5199-193-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WNCMF.1994.529437

Filename

529437