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EE5401 <strong>Cellular</strong> Mobile Communications<br />

EE5401 <strong>Cellular</strong> Mobile Communications<br />

Channel Assignment Strategies<br />

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Channel allocation schemes can affect the performance<br />

of the system.<br />

Fixed Channel Allocation (FCA) :<br />

• Channels are divided in sets.<br />

• A set of channels is permanently allocated to each cell<br />

in the network. Same set of channels must be<br />

assigned to cells separated by a certain distance to<br />

reduce co-channel interference.<br />

• Any call attempt within the cell can only be served by<br />

the unused channels in that particular cell. <strong>The</strong><br />

service is blocked if all channels have used up.<br />

• Most easiest to implement but least flexibility.<br />

• An modification to this is ‘borrowing scheme’. Cell<br />

(acceptor cell) that has used all its nominal channels<br />

can borrow free channels from its neighboring cell<br />

(donor cell) to accommodate new calls.<br />

• Borrowing can be done in a few ways: borrowing from<br />

the adjacent cell which has largest number of free<br />

channels, select the first free channel found, etc.<br />

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• To be available for borrowing, the channel must not<br />

interfere with existing calls. <strong>The</strong> borrowed channel<br />

should be returned once the channel becomes free.<br />

Dynamic Channel Allocaton (DCA) :<br />

• Voice channels are not allocated to any cell<br />

permanently. All channels are kept in a central pool<br />

and are assigned dynamically to new calls as they<br />

arrive in the system.<br />

• Each time a call request is made, the serving BS<br />

requests a channel from the MSC. It then allocates a<br />

channel to the requested cell following an algorithm<br />

that takes into acount the likelihood of future blocking<br />

within the cell, the reuse distance of the channel and<br />

other cost functions ⇒ increase in complexity<br />

• Centralized DCA scheme involves a single controller<br />

selecting a channel for each cell. Distributed DCA<br />

scheme involves a number of controllers scattered<br />

across the network.<br />

• For a new call, a free channel from central pool is<br />

selected based on either the co-channel distance,<br />

signal strength or signal to noise interference ratio.<br />

Flexible channel assignment<br />

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