TY - GEN
T1 - Combined effects of narrowbeam antennas and fractional loading factor in forward link cellular communication systems
AU - Cardieri, Paulo
AU - Rappaport, Theodore S.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - It is well known that cellular capacity can be increased by reducing cell cluster size, since more channels may then be assigned to each cell. However, this reduction of cluster size leads to increased co-channel interference, requiring the use of some co-channel interference control techniques at the base stations or in the air interface. In this paper we analyze the combined application of `smart antennas' (narrowbeam antennas) and the fractional loading factor. We explore the effect of reducing the total co-channel interference, while simultaneously adjusting the cellular cluster size.
AB - It is well known that cellular capacity can be increased by reducing cell cluster size, since more channels may then be assigned to each cell. However, this reduction of cluster size leads to increased co-channel interference, requiring the use of some co-channel interference control techniques at the base stations or in the air interface. In this paper we analyze the combined application of `smart antennas' (narrowbeam antennas) and the fractional loading factor. We explore the effect of reducing the total co-channel interference, while simultaneously adjusting the cellular cluster size.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0032664284
SN - 0780354354
T3 - IEEE VTS 50th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 1999-Fall
SP - 1074
EP - 1078
BT - IEEE VTS 50th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 1999-Fall
T2 - IEEE VTS 50th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 1999-Fall
Y2 - 19 September 1999 through 22 September 1999
ER -