Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Jain, Nikhil
URN	etd-06192006-125748
Title	Cell design in a cellular system using guard channels, call queueing and channel borrowing
Degree	PhD
Department	Industrial and Systems Engineering
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Daigle, John N. Committee Co-Chair Sherali, Hanif D. Committee Co-Chair Boisen, Monte B. Jr. Committee Member Kobza, John E. Committee Member Nachlas, Joel A. Committee Member Tew, Jeffrey D. Committee Member
Keywords	Cellular telephones
Date of Defense	1993-12-05
Availability	restricted
Abstract This dissertation develops an analytic framework to undertake cell design in a cellular system. The cell is modeled in a broader sense than ever done before. In our analytical model, we incorporated the use of guard channels, queueing of new calls, and hybrid channel allocation. A numerically stable and efficient solution to a queueing system with two arrival streams having reserved and borrowable servers has been developed. This queueing system is used to model the cell behavior. The model provides valuable insights into the behavior of the cell, and this in turn has been used to devise an efficient stochastic optimization algorithm for determining the minimum number of channels required by the cell. Our techniques are stable, easy to implement for practical systems and produce optimized solutions quickly. This is particularly useful because we expect that future designs of cellular systems may execute such algorithms on cell-site processors.
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