Analysis and coloring of a shotgun cellular system

Author

Brown, Timothy X.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

9-12 Aug 1998

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

54

Abstract

This paper analyzes cellular systems where the base stations are placed at random. Analysis compares the base station to mobile link in random systems to ideal hexagonal systems. Under log-normal shadow fading and sectorizing-but no channel planning-the random system has carrier to interference levels within 4 dB and spectral efficiency within 2 dB of the hexagonal system. A simple linear-time channel assignment algorithm reduces each of these differences by 1 dB. Thus, at a modest cost in performance, deployment costs and deployment speed can be greatly reduced

Keywords

cellular radio; channel allocation; fading channels; log normal distribution; radiofrequency interference; random processes; analysis; base station to mobile link; base stations; carrier to interference levels; coloring; deployment costs; deployment speed; ideal hexagonal systems; log-normal shadow fading; performance; random systems; sectorizing; shotgun cellular system; simple linear-time channel assignment algorithm; spectral efficiency; Antenna measurements; Background noise; Channel capacity; Engineering profession; Interchannel interference; Mobile antennas; Nearest neighbor searches; Power measurement; Rayleigh channels; Shadow mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio and Wireless Conference, 1998. RAWCON 98. 1998 IEEE

Conference_Location

Colorado Springs, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4988-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAWCON.1998.709134

Filename

709134