Cellular frequency reuse cell plan
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1. In a cellular radio communications system including a plurality of radio transceivers each of which are connected to antennas for communicating with a plurality of mobile subscriber units operating within said system, an antenna system comprising:
- a plurality of antenna sites spaced from one another throughout said system in a predetermined repeating pattern, each of said antenna sites operating on a specific group of radio frequencies to serve an associated plurality of hexagon-shaped cells within said system and in which no two contiguous sites use the same group of frequencies but frequency groups are reused among arrays of four sites; and
means for implementing twelve groups of frequencies among each of said arrays of four antenna sites where each of said twelve groups of frequencies is comprised of N/12 channels, where N is the number of available voice channel frequencies in the cellular system.
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Abstract
A frequency reuse plan for a cellular radio communications system includes a plurality of antenna sites which implement twelve groups of frequencies among four antenna sites. The same frequencies are reused by other groups of four antenna sites. Each antenna site serves three hexagon shaped cells arranged in a clover-leaf shaped pattern by three groups of antennas, each of which group is separated by a pointing angle of 120 degrees.
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1. In a cellular radio communications system including a plurality of radio transceivers each of which are connected to antennas for communicating with a plurality of mobile subscriber units operating within said system, an antenna system comprising:
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a plurality of antenna sites spaced from one another throughout said system in a predetermined repeating pattern, each of said antenna sites operating on a specific group of radio frequencies to serve an associated plurality of hexagon-shaped cells within said system and in which no two contiguous sites use the same group of frequencies but frequency groups are reused among arrays of four sites; and means for implementing twelve groups of frequencies among each of said arrays of four antenna sites where each of said twelve groups of frequencies is comprised of N/12 channels, where N is the number of available voice channel frequencies in the cellular system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. In a cellular radio communications system including a plurality of radio transceivers each of which are connected to antennas for communicating with a plurality of mobile subscriber units operating within said system, an antenna system comprising:
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a plurality of antenna sites spaced from one another throughout said system in a predetermined repeating pattern, each of which sites including antennas operating on a specific group of radio frequencies and each of which antenna sites serve an associated three hexagon-shaped cells within said system and in which no two contiguous sites use the same group of frequencies but frequency groups are reused among individual arrays of four sites; and means for implementing twelve groups of frequencies among each of said arrays of four antenna sites, each of said twelve groups consisting of N/12 channels, where N is the number of available frequencies in the system. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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