Saturday, 10 October 2009

7.2 FREQUENCY RE-USE

Frequency reuse is the design process of selecting and allocating channel group for all of the cellular base station within a system. Modem cellular networks are planned using the technique of frequency re-use. Within a cellular network, the number of calls that the network can support is limited by the amount of radio frequencies allocated to that network. However, a cellular network can overcome this constraint and maximize the number of subscribers that it can service by using frequency re-use.

Frequency re-use means that two radio channel within the same network can use exactly the same pair of frequencies, provided that there is a sufficient geographical distance (the frequency re-use distance) between them so they will not interfere each other. The tighter frequency re-use plan the greater the capacity potential of the network.

These frequency re-use patterns ensure that any frequencies being re-used are located at a sufficient distance apart to ensure that there is little interference between them. The term “frequency re-use distance” is used to describe the distance between two identical frequencies in re-use pattern. The lower frequency re-use distance between two capacities will be available in the network.

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