A Channel Assignment Scheme for Hot Spot in Cellular Mobile Communication System
Dang An-hong①; Zhu Shi-hua②; Tang Jun-xiong①
①Electronics Dept Peking University Beijing 100871 China;②Dept of Information and Communications Engineering Xi’an Jiaotong University Xi’an 710049 China
Abstract:The traffic load is estimated based on the optimally combined traffic load forecasting model for cellular mobile communications system, The results are then used to derive the hot cells and cold cells due to the Quality of Service (QoS) requirement, an Optimized Hybrid Channel Assignment (OHCA) scheme is proposed and the ratio of active channels and static channels is derived. The analysis indicates that the ratio is bounded by the traffic fluctuation and QoS requirement. Simulation results show that the forecasting model can reduce the prediction error and yield higher forecasting precision compared to using only one method, and OHCA is shown to be superior to the current FCA and DCA in terms of call blocking probability and spectrum utilization. The scheme can be used to handle the hot spot case, and is therefore an attractive scheme for practical systems.