Abstract | ||
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The optimal geometric configuration of the cells of a wireless network using multiple antennas for each base station and a macrodiversity technique is investigated. The simplest model of a cell of an existing wireless network is disk shaped, and the cell deployment is arranged in a honeycomb tiling pattern. This model has been used as the first-order approximation for designing and evaluating wireless networks. However, the cells of a network using multiple antennas and macrodiversity are no longer disk shaped. This study investigated a network with a cell-and-antenna deployment pattern that covers a given service area using the minimum number of cells. The objective of this paper is to offer a first-order approximation model for a cell-and-antenna deployment pattern of such a network. For this objective, first, by imposing practical conditions, cell-and-antenna deployment patterns are classified. Then, the asymptotic minimum coverage problem is formulated as an optimization problem with a constraint for a set of deployment patterns. To easily obtain the first-order approximation model, a simplified formulation and model are proposed. Numerical examples show that the proposed deployment pattern covers the service area with nearly half the cells required by the existing heuristic pattern. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2013 | 10.1109/TMC.2012.111 | IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Diversity reception,Base stations,Wireless communication,Approximation methods,Transmitting antennas | Wireless network,Base station,Heuristic,Macrodiversity,Software deployment,Wireless,Computer science,Computer network,Cellular network,Optimization problem | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
12 | 8 | 1536-1233 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
2 | 0.38 | 0 |
Authors | ||
2 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Hiroshi Saito | 1 | 164 | 16.39 |
Daisei Uchida | 2 | 7 | 2.57 |