WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS

LECTURE 6

Tanvir Ahmad NiaziTanvir.niazi@mail.au.edu.pkAir 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: (λ) 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 It’s 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 exampleWe 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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