PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF FIXED AND DYNAMIC CHANNEL ASSIGNMENTS IN INDOOR CELLULAR-SYSTEM (REPRINTED FROM IEEE, PROCEEDINGS OF VEHICULAR-TECHNOLOGY-CONFERENCE, ATLANTA, APRIL 28 MAY 1, 1996, PG 928-932)

This paper compares the performance of an indoor cellular system in te rms of capacity and channel assignment delay for different Dynamic Cha nnel Assignment (DCA) and Fixed Channel Assignment (FCA) schemes. We r efer to specific group of DCAs, namely Channel Segregation and Reuse P artitioning (RP). Our main concern is to show that these DCA schemes o ffer better performance than FCA. Since the structure and floor layout of a building will have a major influence on the propagation and henc e on the cell shape, a path loss simulator is developed for predicting the path loss which is used in evolving base station layouts. Compute r simulation, based on Monte Carlo method, is carried out using the pa th loss values and the base station layouts. The results indicate that increased traffic capacity can be achieved with ail DCAs in compariso n with FCA. The highest capacity and a shorter channel assignment dela y are delivered by Self-Organized Reuse Partitioning DCA scheme.