A satellite-augmented cellular network concept
Wireless Networks - Special issue: hybrid and satellite communication networks
Resource management issues in future wireless multimedia networks
Journal of High Speed Networks
Fundamenta Informaticae - Intelligent Data Analysis in Granular Computing
A reversible hierarchical scheme for microcellular systems with overlaying macrocells
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 1
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The greatest single factor in enhancing spectral efficiency of a network is the mass deployment of microcells. By this simple technique we can repeatedly and efficiently reuse the precious spectrum. The number of users a network can support is fundamentally dependent on the common air interface (CAI) over which users communicate. User capacity is dependent on many factors, but the cardinal ones are the amount of spectrum the regulators allocate, the size of the radio coverage area from a base station (BS), and the amount of interference a particular radio link can tolerate. In this article we are primarily concerned with the system aspects associated with the CAI. We focus on the critical importance of BS siting. Starting with existing large cells, we deliberate on the problems that might arise in siting BSs in three dimensional microcells, in order to consider suitable multiple access methods for future cellular environments