Plane cover multiple access: A new approach to maximizing cellular system capacity

We develop a new media access control strategy, called plane cover multiple access (PCMA), that provides a means of allocating wireless bandwidth in a packet-based cellular system. PCMA seeks to maximize the number of paralle l transmissions among cells by defining virtual cells in which users transm it using a given reuse factor. By keeping the reuse factors low, system thr oughput ran be maximized. We show that the throughput of a simple system de signed using PCMA is up to 82% more efficient than CDPA, the best known alt ernative for the cellular mobile environment.