Advanced Mobile Phone Service: The Cellular Test Bed
G.C. Di Piazza, A. Plitkins, George I. Zysman · Bell System Technical Journal · 1979
The Cellular Test Bed is a comprehensively instrumented field test laboratory supporting the development and evaluation of the Advanced Mobile Phone Service (amps). It consists of three main cell sites and six co-channel interferer sites configured in a small-cell hexagonal grid centered on the Newark, N.J. area. The sites interface with a central control and monitoring facility that incorporates a miniprocessor and related peripherals. A highly instrumented mobile laboratory performs fundamental data-gathering tasks and functions as the system mobile unit. A dedicated analysis facility is used to process and interpret the field-gathered data and simulate alternative operating system algorithms and their effect upon performance.