Plane cover multiple access: a new approach to maximizing cellular system capacity
P.M. Blair, George C. Polyzos, Michele Zorzi · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 2001
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 parallel transmissions among cells by defining virtual cells in which users transmit using a given reuse factor. By keeping the reuse factors low, system throughput can be maximized. We show that the throughput of a simple system designed using PCMA is up to 82% more efficient than capture division packet access (CDPA), the best known alternative for the cellular mobile environment.