Title: A new dynamic guard channel reservation scheme for cellular wireless networks

Authors: Raj Kumar Samanta, Gautam Sanyal, Partha Bhattacharjee

Addresses: Department of CSE, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, Gandhi Avenue, West Bengal 713209, India. ' Department of CSE, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, Gandhi Avenue, West Bengal 713209, India. ' Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur, Gandhi Avenue, West Bengal 713209, India

Abstract: In this paper, a new dynamic guard channel reservation scheme, based on conditional real-time channel availability, is proposed to achieve better handoff performance and higher utilisation of system resources (radio spectrum) in cellular wireless networks. The proposed scheme has been explained mathematically and studied in a cellular wireless environment. Different performance parameters are measured using the proposed scheme and are compared with those obtained from a fixed guard channel scheme.

Keywords: dynamic guard channel; blocking; forced termination probability; handoff performance; cellular wireless networks; guard channel reservation; radio spectrum.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCNDS.2010.035559

International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 2010 Vol.5 No.4, pp.429 - 443

Received: 20 Jun 2009
Accepted: 22 Feb 2010
Published online: 30 Sep 2010 *

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