Designing macroscopic diversity cellular systems

Author

Weiss, Ulrich

Author_Institution

Inst. of Commun. Networks & Computer Eng., Stuttgart Univ., Germany

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

36342

Firstpage

2054

Abstract

With regard to the requirement of high capacity and high quality speech and data transmission of future communication systems, we study the application of macroscopic diversity in cellular systems. Macrodiversity is applied during the entire call in order to improve coverage and link quality. The influence on system capacity is studied by the means of discrete event simulation. We propose an access network architecture and cellular layouts which can support macrodiversity. For resource management we apply dynamic channel assignment with an appropriate admission control to guarantee a minimum link quality for all users

Keywords

cellular radio; channel allocation; channel capacity; data communication; discrete event simulation; diversity reception; fading channels; radio access networks; radio links; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication network management; voice communication; access network architecture; admission control; cellular layouts; cellular systems design; communication systems; coverage; data transmission; discrete event simulation; dynamic channel assignment; fading; high capacity; high quality speech; link quality; macrodiversity; macroscopic diversity cellular systems; minimum link quality; resource management; system capacity; Base stations; Communication networks; Data communication; Fading; Mobile communication; Radio control; Radio link; Relays; Speech; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1999 IEEE 49th

Conference_Location

Houston, TX

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5565-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1999.778406

Filename

778406