Following the principle of reuse partitioning, two new frequency planning schemes are proposed, the coverage-oriented scheme and the efficiency-oriented scheme, for the cellular system with two-hop fixed relay nodes ...Following the principle of reuse partitioning, two new frequency planning schemes are proposed, the coverage-oriented scheme and the efficiency-oriented scheme, for the cellular system with two-hop fixed relay nodes (FRNs). Compared with the effficiency-oriented scheme, the coverage-oriented scheme has higher reuse distances and is developed with emphasis on the coverage, while compared with the coverage-oriented scheme, the efficiency-oriented scheme has smaller reuse distances and is developed with emphasis on the spectral efficiency. Taking uplink as an example, both simplified analysis and intensive computer simulations are presented to offer comparisons among FRN enhanced systems with the proposed schemes, with a known channel-borrowing based frequency planning scheme and the conventional cellular system without relaying. Studies show that the FRN enhanced system with the coverage-oriented scheme provides the best coverage, while that with the efficiency-oriented scheme offers the highest area spectral efficiency.展开更多
文摘Following the principle of reuse partitioning, two new frequency planning schemes are proposed, the coverage-oriented scheme and the efficiency-oriented scheme, for the cellular system with two-hop fixed relay nodes (FRNs). Compared with the effficiency-oriented scheme, the coverage-oriented scheme has higher reuse distances and is developed with emphasis on the coverage, while compared with the coverage-oriented scheme, the efficiency-oriented scheme has smaller reuse distances and is developed with emphasis on the spectral efficiency. Taking uplink as an example, both simplified analysis and intensive computer simulations are presented to offer comparisons among FRN enhanced systems with the proposed schemes, with a known channel-borrowing based frequency planning scheme and the conventional cellular system without relaying. Studies show that the FRN enhanced system with the coverage-oriented scheme provides the best coverage, while that with the efficiency-oriented scheme offers the highest area spectral efficiency.