Abstract
A four-sector cross-shaped urban microcellular system with intelligent switched-beam antennas is proposed. Each sector covers a street block with a base station located at an intersection, and an intelligent beam-switching scheme is used to locate mobile users in the most suitable beam coverage. Due to directional narrow-beam patterns and waveguide effects of tall buildings, radio signals along vertical and horizontal streets do not interfere with each other. Therefore, a channel can be reused simultaneously in multiple neighboring cells as long as cochannels do not encounter each other along the line of sight. The proposed scheme has a channel reuse efficiency of 0.95 for a traffic load of 0.02 [new-call arrivals/s/cell]. The system also increases system capacity more than three times with a blocking probability of 1% and considerably reduces handoff traffic when compared with a conventional cross-shaped microcellular system with an omnidirectional beam pattern.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 592-604 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2001 |
Keywords
- Cross-shaped cell
- Intelligent switched-beam antenna
- Reuse efficiency
- System capacity