Effective channel assignment in multi-hop W-CDMA cellular networks

  • Authors:

  • Y. Hung Tam;Hossam S. Hassanein;Selim G. Akl

  • Affiliations:

  • Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada;Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada;Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Wireless communications and mobile computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Multi-hop relaying is an important concept in tackling the inherent problems of limited capacity and coverage in cellular networks. It helps to solve the dead-spots problem and to ease congestion in hotspots. However, to obtain good performance of multi-hop relaying, an effective channel assignment scheme is needed. In this paper, we study the design goals of a good channel assignment scheme. We then propose a channel assignment scheme, called Extended Delay-Sensitive Slot Assignment (E-DSSA), which achieves all these goals. The distinctive feature of E-DSSA is the use of a novel transmission zone testing technique which allows high flexibility and precision in channel assignment in TDD W-CDMA multi-hop cellular environment. Performance evaluation shows that E-DSSA outperforms its existing counterparts in terms of data throughput with low delay for both sparse and dense networks. E-DSSA is also shown to adapt to different cell sizes achieving high throughput and call acceptance ratios.