Unit-Iv Frequency Management and Channel Assignment: Ece/Liet C410 CMC Notes Sudheer Asst Prof ECE Dept
Unit-Iv Frequency Management and Channel Assignment: Ece/Liet C410 CMC Notes Sudheer Asst Prof ECE Dept
Introduction:
The function of frequency management is to divide the total number of
available channels into subsets which can be assigned to each cell either in fixed
fashion or dynamically (in response to any channel among the total available
channels) Frequency management refers to designating setup channels and voice
channels, numbering the channels and grouping the voice channels into subsets.
Channel assignment referees to allocation of specific channels to cell sites and
mobile units.
Fixed channel set: (consisting of one or more subsets) is assigned to a cell site on
long term basis.
During a call, a particular channel is assigned to a mobile unit on a short
term basis. For a short term assignment, one channel assignment per call is
handled by the Mobile Telephone Switching Office (MTSO)
At present total number of channels is 832. But most mobile units are still
operating on 666 channels.
A channel consists of two frequency channel bandwidth one in the low
band and the other in the high band. The two frequencies in channel 1 are
825.03MHz (mobile transmit) and 870.03MHz (cell site transmit). The two
frequencies in channel 666 are 844.98MHz (mobile transmit) and 889.98MHz
(cell-site transmit)
The 666 channels are divided into A-Group and B-Group with each block
having 333 channels as shown in .fig
Paging channels
The paging channel is used for land-originating calls. Each cell site has been
allocated its own set-up channel (control channel) .The assigned forward set-up channel
(FOCC) of each cell site is used to page the mobile unit with the same mobile station
control massage.
Channel assignment to the cell sites-fixed channel assignment
In a fixed channel assignment, the channels are assigned to cell site for long
periods for SETUP channels and voice channels. There are 21-set up channels assigned to
each cell for K = 4, 7 or 12 frequency reuse pattern
The transmitted powers of the voice channels at the cell site are adjusted for these
two areas. Then different voice frequencies are assigned to each area. Different set of
frequencies are used in an overlay area and underlay areas and this is to avoid adjacent
channel and co channel interference.
When an incoming signal strength for a call is higher than a specified level L, then
under laid cell is assigned and if low, overlaid cell is assigned. Handoffs are implemented
between the under laid and overlaid cells. To avoid unnecessary hand offs, the two levels
L1 and L2 are chosen such that L1 > L2.
ECE/LIET C410 CMC NOTES Sudheer Asst Prof ECE Dept
(i) Adjacent channel assignment :
Adjacent channel assignment includes neighboring - channel assignment (four
channels on either side of the desired channel) and next channel assignment.
(a) In a uniform traffic distribution 911-channels per cell) condition of (fig.6.4 (a)),
the 3 percent blocking of both BCA and FBCA, will result in 28 percent load increase
compared to 3 percent blocking of FCA. There is no difference between BCA and FBCA.
(b) In a non-uniform traffic distribution (i.e. number of channels in each cell is
dependent on the vehicle distribution), the load increase in BCA drops to 23 percent and
that of FBCA increase to 33 percent at an average blocking of 3 percent as shown in
fig.6.4(b). The percentage of increase in land is the same as the percent reduction in the
number for channels.
(2) Handoff blocking: This can occur only at cell setup stage.
In fig (a), for a uniform blocking, load is increased to 30 percent both for BCA and
FBCA when compared to FCA, for a 3% handoff blocking. As shown in fig. (b) For 4
percent blocking, load increase in 50 percent for both BCA and FBCA and this will reduce
the interference and blocking.