Method for frequency reuse in cellular network

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9288678-B2
Application number	US-201313896454-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 17, 2013
Priority date	May 18, 2012
Publication date	Mar 15, 2016
Grant date	Mar 15, 2016

Abstract

The present invention relates to the technical field of wireless communication, and discloses a method for frequency reuse based on cellular network. The method comprises the following steps: dividing the whole cellular network into a plurality of different cell clusters, wherein each cell cluster comprises three cells, every two of them being adjacent to each other; for each cell in a cell cluster, dividing the cell into a central area and an edge area according to the coverage of the cell; dividing the whole available frequency band of the network according to the user distribution and service distribution in the cell cluster; allocating divided frequency bands to the central area and the edge area in the cell cluster respectively according to preset rule; and applying the method for frequency reuse to other cell clusters, thus achieving the frequency reuse of the whole network. With the method, the average spectrum frequency efficiency of the cellular network can be improved, and interference among cells can be effectively suppressed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for frequency reuse based on cellular network, comprising the following steps:
S 1 , dividing, by a processor, the whole cellular network into a plurality of cell clusters, wherein each cell cluster comprises three cells, every two of them being adjacent to each other;
S 2 , for each cell in a cell cluster, dividing the cell, by the processor, into a central area group G 1 , an edge group G 2 , and a corner group G 3 ;
S 3 , dividing, by the processor, the whole available frequency band of the network; and
S 4 , allocating divided frequency bands to the central area group G 1 , the edge group G 2 , and the corner group G 3 in the cell cluster, by the processor,
wherein the central area group G 1 consists of a central area of each of the cells, wherein the edge group G 2 consists of at least one area which is located at the edge of each cell and adjacent to only one other cell, and wherein the corner group G 3 consists of at least one area which is located at the edge of each cell and adjacent to at least two other cells.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said step S 3 comprises dividing the whole available frequency band F of the network, by the processor, into m frequency bands which are not overlapped with each other, f 1 , f 2 , f 3 , . . . , fm, wherein m≧7.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein said group G 1 uses one and the same frequency band, said group G 2 uses different frequency bands separately along the circumferential direction in the areas of each cell, and said group G 3 uses different frequency bands at respective areas of each cell.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein said group G 2 uses different frequency bands at corresponding areas of different cells.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the area included in the edge group is a rectangular area.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the coverage of each cell is an area of regular hexahedron.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the whole available frequency band of the network is divided in a dynamically adjustable manner.

Assignees

• Univ Beijing Posts & Telecomm

Inventors

• Tao Xiaofeng
• Zhang Ping
• Li Xiaona
• Cui Qimei
• Xu Xiaodong
• Xu Yingyue
• Rehman Waheed Ur

Classifications

• H04W16/12

  Fixed resource partitioning · CPC title

• H04W16/30 Primary

  Special cell shapes, e.g. doughnuts or ring cells · CPC title

• H04W16/02 Primary

  Resource partitioning among network components, e.g. reuse partitioning · CPC title