APPROXIMATION OF PERFORMANCE-MEASURES IN CELLULAR MOBILE NETWORKS WITH DYNAMIC CHANNEL ALLOCATION

This paper considers large cellular mobile networks with dynamic chann el allocation in which the arrival rates, holding times and handover p robabilities for the different cells are identical. Such networks coul d model, for example, cellular networks in suburban areas. Different m ethods of analysing these networks are compared. These methods fall in to two basic categories, those which approximate a network with a smal ler finite network and those which consider the expected performance o f a cell within an environment consisting of cells with identical prop erties. Simplifications of these methods which arise out of the revers ibility of a symmetric cellular network are also discussed.