| Abstract: | Capacity enhancement and interference performance are among the most important issues in the 2nd and 3rd generation cellular networks planning. The main objective of the planning process is to reach a tradeoff between the quality and the capacity of the network. In this paper, we study and compare the CIR and spectral efficiency of different cellular reuse patterns. We also establish the exact analytical PDF expression of CIR assuming one interferer in the serving cell, we then generalize this expression to many interferer tiers. Shadowing effect is also carefully considered in the CIR distribution extension. Moreover, numerical computations are performed to estimate spectral efficiency values for the different patterns studied. Some simulations are also developed to give the comparison a concrete and a practical aspect. A reuse partitioning (RP) capacity scheme is used to serve as the basis of the study. In particular, RP sub‐cells' sizes and number of partitions are optimized in order to maximize the traffic capacity parameterized by spectral and trunking efficiency while involving the financial cost. The efficiency/cost comparison is among the main novel issues contributed by the paper. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
