WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS

LECTURE 6

Tanvir Ahmad Niazi

Tanvir.niazi@mail.au.edu.pk
Air University, Islamabad

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 Overview of the Previous Lecture
New Topics
Trunking and Grade of Service
Improving Coverage and Capacity in Cellular Systems
Announcements

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Overview of the Previous Lecture

Channel Assignment Strategies

--Fixed, Dynamic, Channel borrowing
Hand off Strategies
--Prioritizing Handoffs
--Practical Handoff Considerations
Interference and System Capacity
--Co-channel interference and System capacity
--Channel Planning for Wireless Systems
--Adjacent Channel Interference
--Power Control for Reducing Interference

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Adjacent Channel Interference
Interference from channels that are adjacent in frequency,
The primary reason for that is Imperfect Receive Filters which cause the
adjacent channel energy to leak into your spectrum.
Problem is severer if the user of adjacent channel is in close proximity.
Near-Far Effect
Near-Far Effect: The other transmitter(who may or may not be of the
same type) captures the receiver of the subscriber.
Also, when a Mobile Station close to the Base Station transmits on a
channel close to the one being used by a weaker mobile: The BS faces
difficulty in discriminating the desired mobile user from the bleed over
of the adjacent channel mobile.

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Near-Far Effect: Case 1

The Mobile receiver is captured by the unintended, unknown transmitter,

instead of the desired base station

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Near-Far Effect: Case 2

The Base Station faces difficulty in recognizing the actual mobile user,
when the adjacent channel bleed over is too high.

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Minimization of ACI

(1) Careful Filtering ---- min. leakage or sharp transition

(2) Better Channel Assignment Strategy

Channels in a cell need not be adjacent: For channels within a cell, Keep
frequency separation as large as possible.
Sequentially assigning cells the successive frequency channels.
Also, secondary level of interference can be reduced by not assigning
adjacent channels to neighboring cells.
For tolerable ACI, we either need to increase the frequency separation or
reduce the passband BW.

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Trunking and Grade of
Service (GOS)

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 Trunking and Grade of Service
(GOS)
Trunking:
A means for providing access to users on demand from
available pool of channels.
With trunking, a small number of channels can accommodate
large number of random users.
Telephone companies use trunking theory to determine number of circuits
required.
Trunking theory is about how a population can be handled by a limited
number of servers.

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Terminology:
1. Traffic intensity is measured in Erlangs:
One Erlang: traffic in a channel completely occupied. 0.5 Erlang:
channel occupied 30 minutes in an hour.
2. Grade of Service (GOS): probability that a call is blocked (or
delayed).
3. Set-Up Time: time to allocate a channel.
4. Blocked Call: Call that cannot be completed at time of request due to
congestion. Also referred to as Lost Call.
5. Holding Time: (H) average duration of typical call.
6. Load: Traffic intensity across the whole system.
7. Request Rate: () average number of call requests per unit time.

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Traffic Measurement (Erlangs)

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Erlang C Model Blocked calls
cleared
A different type of trunked system queues blocked calls Blocked Calls
Delayed. This is known as an Erlang C model.

Procedure:
Determine Pr[delay> 0] = probability of a delay from the chart.
Pr[delay > t | delay > 0 ] = probability that the delay is longer than t, given
that there is a delay
Pr[delay > t | delay > 0 ] =exp[-(C-A)t /H ]
Unconditional Probability of delay > t :
Pr[delay > t ] = Pr[delay > 0] Pr[delay > t | delay > 0 ]
Average delay time D = Pr[delay > 0] H/ (C-A)

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Erlang C Formula

The likelihood of a call not having immediate access to a channel is

determined by Erlang C formula:

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Improving Capacity in Cellular
Systems
Cost of a cellular network is proportional to the number of Base Stations.
The income is proportional to the number of users.
Ways to increase capacity:
New spectrum expensive. PCS bands were sold for $20B.
Architectural approaches: cell splitting, cell sectoring, reuse partitioning, microcell
zones.
Dynamic allocation of channels according to load in the cell (non-uniform distribution of
channels).
Improve access technologies. 3.7 Improving Capacity in Cellular Systems

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Cell Splitting

Cell Splitting is the process of subdividing the congested cell into smaller
cells (microcells),Each with its own base station and a corresponding
reduction in antenna height and transmitter power.

Cell Splitting increases the capacity since it increases the number of times
the channels are reused.

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 An Example

The area covered by a circle with radius R is four times the area covered
by the circle with radius R/2
The number of cells is increased four times
The number of clusters the number of channels and the capacity in the
coverage area are increased
Cell Splitting does not change the co-channel re-use ratio Q =D/R

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Transmit Power

New cells are smaller, so the transmit power of the new cells must be
reduced
How to determine the transmit power?
The transmit power of the new cells can be found by examining the
received power at the new and old cell boundaries and setting them equal

Pr(at the old cell boundary) is proportional to

Pr(at the new cell boundary) is proportional to

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Transmit Power

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Application of cell splitting

Not all cells are split at the same time.

Larger transmit power
Some of the channels would not be sufficiently separated from the co-
channel cells.
Smaller transmit power --parts of the larger cells left uncovered
Two groups:
one that corresponds to the smaller cell and the other for larger cell reuse requirements

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Application of cell splitting (cont.)

The sizes of these two groups depend on the stage of the splitting process
At the beginning, fewer channels will be there in the smaller power group.
As the demand grows, smaller groups would require more channels
Cell splitting continues until all the channels are in the smaller power
group
Antenna Down tilting
To limit the radio coverage of microcells

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Cell Overlay
Its a relatively novel technique
Cells used by A are divided into:
Channels used by a those are used by A only within radius R/2 from center.

Channels not used by a no restrictions on their use in A.

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Cell sectoring
Another way to reduce the number of cells in a cluster and hence, to
reduce Interference is sectoring. Sectoring refers to the use of directional
rather than omni antennas. Three (3) 120 degrees sectors are shown as an
example

Analysis: mobile in center cell will experience

interference from only 2 cells (not 6).
Improvement of 6dB in S/I. Alternatively,
try to reduce the reuse factor. Sectoring entails
reduced trunking efficiency.

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Example of Cell Sectoring
With omin directional antennas

Where we assumed that the power attenuation n = 4.

For N = 4, we obtain S = 13.8 dB.
For N = 4 and with 3 sectors, we get S = 19. 9 dB:

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Microzones

Multiple zones and a base station make up a cell

As a mobile travels within the cell, it is served by the zone with the
strongest signal
This technique is superior to sectoring because antennas are placed at the
outer edges of the cell, and any base station channel can be assigned to
any zone by the base station

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Microzoning

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ADVANTAGES

No handoffs is required at the MSC

The base station radiation is localized and interference is reduced. A given

channel is active only in the particular zone in which the mobile is
traveling

The co-channel interference is also reduced

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 Decreased co-channel interference improves signal quality which leads to
an increase in capacity without any degradation in trunking efficiency
caused by sectoring

For example
We know an (S/I) of 18dB is required for satisfactory system performance
in narrowband FM

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EXAMPLE

If a system with N=7 and (D/R)=4.6,it can achieved a (S/I) of 18dB

For a microcell zone system, since transmission at any instant is confined
to a particular zone, this implies that a (Dz/Rz) of 4.6 can achieve the
required performance
where,
Dz = minimum distance between active co-channel zones and
Rz = zone radius

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EXAMPLE (cont.)

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Repeaters for Range Extension
Repeaters are radio re-transmitters used to provide coverage for hard-to-
reach areas, such as within buildings or in valleys or tunnels

Repeaters are bidirectional. Upon receiving signals from base station,

then amplifies and reradiates the base station signals to the specific
coverage region. Also it will send signals to the serving base station.

The repeaters do not add capacity to the system-it simply serves to

reradiate the base station signal into specific locations

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Repeaters for Range Extension

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Summary for chapter 3
Concepts of handoff, frequency reuse, trunking efficiency and frequency
planning have been presented

The capacity of a cellular system depends on several factors and the

methods to increase the capacity

The overriding objective of these methods is to increase the number of

users in the system

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Announcements

Problems: 1.3, 1.13, 1.9, 1.10 and 1.18

Problems: 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.8

Due date
14th March, 2008

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