TelecomStudy18

Overlaid Underlaid Subcells in GSM

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July 05, 2015

−Traffic Capacity of a cellular network can be increased by

either
adding more frequencies or reducing the frequency reuse
distance.
−One approach is to apply a second frequency re-use pattern
with a tighter frequency reuse (Overlay) on the existing pattern.
−These cells should be restricted in size, so shorter reuse
distance can be accomplished without causing Co-
channel/Adjacent channel
interference.
−They are termed Overlaid (OL) Subcells, whereas the
original
cells will be called Underlaid (UL) Subcells.
−Now by having more frequencies per cell, then Network
capacity is increased
-The fundamental idea behind the OL/UL subcells is to let
the
traffic close to the site to be moved to the OL subcell, while traffic
close to the cell border to be moved to the UL subcell.
−In that way of treading the traffic, the frequencies in the
OL
subcell can have tighter frequency reuse.
-Using the OL/UL concept we can solve the case as follows:
-f4 will be used in the OL subcell and it will be restricted
to serve
in a small area only near to the site so interference from the
neighbor cell will be minimized and a good C/I can be enjoyed.
To maintain the service area of the OL subcell restricted to
a
certain region we have three thresholds we can play with:
A.Path Loss Threshold
B.Timing Advance Threshold
C.Distance to Cell Border Threshold
−With the ordinary OL/UL subcells, the MS near the cell will
camp
on the overlaid subcell but even if the OL subcell got high utilized
there
is no way to push traffic to the UL subcell.
−Using Subcell Load Distribution (SCLD) Concept, we can
configure the cell to use the OL as the preferred subcell initially
and when
traffic on the OL increased beyond certain load, any
extra traffic will be
offloaded to the UL subcell.

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