Increasing channel occupancy in large-scale mobile radio systems: Dynamic channel REassignment

Abstract

Large-scale mobile radio systems using dynamic channel REassignment switch the channels assigned to some of the calls in progress to maintain a nearly optimum separation between coverage areas simultaneously using the same channel. Dynamic channel REassignment produces a significant increase in channel occupancy. For example, in the systems studied, which have a uniform distribution of their fixed channels and were operated against a uniform spatial distribution of offered traffic, the channel occupancy was increased by 2/3 over a pure fixed channel assignment system at a blocking rate of one percent. This corresponds to a channel savings of about 40 percent for the same traffic carried at one percent blocking by the hybrid systems that were studied.