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Understanding Cell Splitting in Networks

Cell splitting involves dividing the coverage area of an existing cell site into two or more new cell sites to increase capacity. This is done by adjusting the power level or antenna height of cell sites to reduce their coverage areas. This allows the insertion of new cell sites using the same radio frequencies without interference between adjacent cells. Cell splitting expands capacity within the original cell site area by reusing frequencies.

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Understanding Cell Splitting in Networks

Cell splitting involves dividing the coverage area of an existing cell site into two or more new cell sites to increase capacity. This is done by adjusting the power level or antenna height of cell sites to reduce their coverage areas. This allows the insertion of new cell sites using the same radio frequencies without interference between adjacent cells. Cell splitting expands capacity within the original cell site area by reusing frequencies.

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Cell Splitting

Cell splitting is the process of dividing the radio coverage of a cell site in a wireless telephone system into two or more new cell sites. Cell splitting may be performed to provide additional capacity within the region of the original cell site.

Cell Splitting Operation

This diagram shows the process of cell splitting that is used to expand the capacity (number of channels) of a mobile communication system. In this example, the radio coverage area of large cells sites are split by adjusting the power level and/or using reduced antenna height to cover a reduced area. Reducing the radio coverage area of a cell site by changing the RF boundaries of a cell site has the same effect as placing cells farther apart, and allows new cell sites to be added.

A cellular network is a radio network distributed over land areas called cells, each served by at least one fixed-location transceiver known as a cell site orbase station. When joined together these cells provide radio coverage over a wide geographic area. This enables a large number of portable transceivers (e.g., mobile phones, pagers, etc.) to communicate with each other Cellular networks offer a number of advantages over alternative solutions: increased capacity reduced power use larger coverage area reduced interference from other signals In a cellular radio system, a land area to be supplied with radio service is divided into regular shaped cells, which can be hexagonal, square, circular or some other irregular shapes, although hexagonal cells are conventional. Each of these cells is assigned multiple frequencies (f1 - f6) which have corresponding radio base stations. The group of frequencies can be reused in other cells, provided that the same frequencies are not reused in adjacent neighboring cells as that would cause co-channel interference.

The increased capacity in a cellular network, compared with a network with a single transmitter, comes from the fact that the same radio frequency can be reused in a different area for a completely different transmission

Frequency reuse
The key characteristic of a cellular network is the ability to re-use frequencies to increase both coverage and capacity. As described above, adjacent cells must use different frequencies, however there is no problem with two cells sufficiently far apart operating on the same frequency. The elements that determine frequency reuse are the reuse distance and the reuse factor. The reuse distance, D is calculated as where R is the cell radius and N is the number of cells per cluster. Cells may vary in radius in the ranges (1 km to 30 km). The boundaries of the cells can also overlap between adjacent cells and [1] large cells can be divided into smaller cells The frequency reuse factor is the rate at which the same frequency can be used in the network. It is 1/K (or K according to some books) where K is the number of cells which cannot use the same frequencies for transmission.

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