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will occur and additional intra-timeslot handovers will be
attempted. Therefore the performance of the intra-timeslot
pdf(a) = 2”
r exp[- , ...(2 ) handover presented in this paper would be the maximum that
could be obtained.
where a is the received signal voltage and r is the mean 111. Results
signal power. The mean signal strength can be calculated from
= PT -L p +G , ...(3)
where PT is the transmit power, Lp is the mean path loss and channel distance
G is the antenna gain of the transmitter. The Hata model has
been used to model the mean path loss [7] i.e.
L, = 69.55 + 26.1610g fc - 13.82 log h t cochannel cells
...(4)
+ (44.9 - 6.5510ght)logd,
where f, is the carrier frequency in MHz, ht is the base
antenna height in meters, d is the distance between the base
station and the mobile in kilometers. The effect of mobile
interfering sectors
antenna height is ignored. The above expression applies only
\I
to urban environments. In this paper only the urban
environment is considered. The method presented in this paper Figure 1 :Position of desired and cochannel sectors.
is not specific to any environment or frequency reuse factor. Figure 1 shows the position of the desired and cochannel
The urban environment is used to illustrate the method of sectors. The shaded sectors represent the interfering sectors. In
analysis. order to calculate the probability that C/I < x for different
The probability that the C/I is less than the desired mean C/I at the boundary, the cochannel distance was adjusted
threshold X ,is given by until the desired mean C/I is obtained at the boundary. To
estimate the performance of intra-timeslot handover, Rayleigh
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Receiver sensitivity - 102dBm se
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Signal strength at the cell
boundarv
9dB
-85dBm
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0.01
1
0.1
c
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se
a
0.1
0.01
c
r
a
e
0.01
0.001
8 12 16 20 24
m a n U1at the cell boundary(&)
I 6 13 13.5 14.75
No. of Hopping C/I K Improvement ( Y )
I 8 11.75 12.5 13.25 Channels
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The results presented in Table 2 indicate that the gains 4 17 4.2 -5 I
from frequency hopping diminish as the channel occupancy
increases. The C/I required at the boundary can be reduced by 6 I 14.75 I 3.2 I 25 I
about 5dB in low channel occupancy scenarios and by about 8 13.25 2.6 54
3dB in high channel occupancy scenarios. The reduction in
protection margin at the cell boundary allows the use of tighter
frequency reuse factor which results in higher spectral
efficiency. The improvement in spectral efficiency
(channelsNHzlcel1) is given by
no-hopping
improvement = 1- ...(7)
hopping
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Appendix
Yi(W) =
2
k=l
y '. =
K
is derived and fiom this the pdf of y is
i
where E [x] is the exponential integral.
k=l References
derived.
Jean-Louis Domstetter and Didier Verhulst "Cellular
The pdf of y is obtained using the Mellin convolution [SI. Efficiency with Slow Frequency Hopping: Analysis of
The pdf of y is given by [9] Digital SFH900 Mobile System," JASAC vol. SAC-5, pp.
835-848, June 1987.
r ikL Caisia Cameheim, Sven - Olof Jonsson, Malin
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