Adaptive-Dynamic channel assignment organization system and method
First Claim
1. In a wireless communications system having service areas partitioned into a plurality of substantially contiguous cells, a method of assigning radio channels to said cells comprising the steps of:
- determining an initial allotment of an available channel set among said plurality of cells based on an established set of traffic and interference data;
measuring traffic and interference data for said cells on a substantially real-time basis, said measure traffic data including at least blocking and signal-to-interference (S/I) data for a given channel;
periodically reallocating channels among said plurality of cells based on said measured traffic and interference data; and
dynamically adjusting said channel allotment during intervals between said periodic reallocation of channels based on contemporaneously measured traffic and interference data.
3 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A channel assignment system allocates channels to various cells by the optimal partitioning of the available radio frequencies into non-overlapping sets, the optimal grouping of co-user cells, and the best allocation of the former to the latter. Maximization of traffic handling capacity is, for one embodiment, expressed as the maximization of a bottleneck capacity ratio, known as the capacity factor. The capacity ratio for a cell is defined as the ratio of the number of radio frequencies allocated to the cell over the number of radio frequencies needed to meet blocking probability requirements. Given a channel allocation, the latter is fixed once the traffic loads and desired blocking are specified. The solution to attain an optimal non-regular channel assignment is decomposed into two mathematical programs designated a Master Program and a Subprogram. These are solved iteratively with assistance from a channel set augmentation technique implemented between solutions of the Master and Subprogram. A method is also provided for periodic reallocation of channels to cells to address changing capacity requirements in individual cells. A further methodology is provided where a cell, having exhausted its available allocated channels, may "borrow" channels, i.e., it may use channels that are not allocated to the cell.
-
Citations
7 Claims
-
1. In a wireless communications system having service areas partitioned into a plurality of substantially contiguous cells, a method of assigning radio channels to said cells comprising the steps of:
-
determining an initial allotment of an available channel set among said plurality of cells based on an established set of traffic and interference data; measuring traffic and interference data for said cells on a substantially real-time basis, said measure traffic data including at least blocking and signal-to-interference (S/I) data for a given channel; periodically reallocating channels among said plurality of cells based on said measured traffic and interference data; and dynamically adjusting said channel allotment during intervals between said periodic reallocation of channels based on contemporaneously measured traffic and interference data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
-
Specification