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How does sectoring improve S/I in cellular system?

Mumbai University > Electronics and Telecommunication > Sem 7 > Mobile Communication

Marks: 10 M

Year: May 2012

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  1. In cell sectoring a single omnidirectional antenna at base station is replaced by several directional antennas, each radiating within a specified sector.
  2. By using directional antennas power is transmitted in single desired direction decreasing number of interfering co-channel cells and co-channel interference.
  3. When sectoring is employed, the channels used in a particular cell are broken down into sectored groups and are used only within a particular sector. For cluster size 7, number of co-channel cells reduced from 6 to 2 for 1200 sectoring. This is because only 2 of the 6 co-channel cells receive interference with a particular sectored channel group.
  4. For omnidirectional antenna there are 6 co-channel cells. For worst condition as shown in figure below there are 2 cells at distance D, 2 cells at distance D+R and 2 cells at distance D-R.

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we know,

sI=Rnioi=1Dn

sI=Rn2Dn+2(DR)n+2(D+R)n

sI=Rn2Rn[(DR)n+(1DR)n+(1+DR)n]

s1=12[(3N)n+(13n)n+(1+3N)n]........(DR=3N)

For N=12 and n=4 we get S/I = 22.53 db which is greater than 18 db, hence cluster size of 12 can be used. For N=7 S/I is 17.27 db, which is less than 18 db, thus cluster size of 7 cannot be used.

  1. Figure given below shows that mobile at the centre of cell named as A experiences interference only from 2 sectors 1 and 2.

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As after sectoring there are only 2 co-channel cells, assume distance of these 2 cells be D and D+R.

sI=RnDn+(D+R)n

sI=RnRn(DR)n+Rn(1+DR)n

sI=1(3N)n+(1+3N)n

For N=7 and n=4, S/I is found to be as 24.81 db which is less than 18 db, thus cluster size of 7 can be used with sectoring.

  1. In this way with reduction in interfering co-channel cells using sectoring, on can improve S/I ratio thus increasing the capacity.

Increase in capacity is given by,

Old  cluster  sizeNew  cluster  size=127=1.714

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