Dynamic Channel Allocation Using Adaptive Antennas and Power Control
J. S. Blogh, Peter Cherriman, Lajos Hanzo · ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) · 1999
This papers investigates the performance of adaptive antenna arrays at the basestation in conjunction with Dynamic Channel Allocation (DCA) and power control. Results are also presented for a Fixed Channel Allocation (FCA) network, using adaptive antennas without power control, for the purposes of comparison. A variety of different performance metrics, and the number of users supported for a given network quality, were determined for the different networks examined. The comparisons were carried out under identical uniform traffic conditions, with the users roaming across the simulation area, rather than simply assigning them to arbitrary, uncorrelated, but essentially stationary random positions.