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Channel Assignment: Frequency Management and

This document discusses frequency management and channel assignment in cellular networks. It describes how the total available frequency spectrum is divided into channels and subsets that can be assigned to cells. It provides details on how the 666 available channels are numbered and divided into blocks and subsets for voice and setup channels. The document explains concepts like channel grouping, paging groups, autonomous registration, and how mobile units and base stations select setup and voice channels for calls.

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Channel Assignment: Frequency Management and

This document discusses frequency management and channel assignment in cellular networks. It describes how the total available frequency spectrum is divided into channels and subsets that can be assigned to cells. It provides details on how the 666 available channels are numbered and divided into blocks and subsets for voice and setup channels. The document explains concepts like channel grouping, paging groups, autonomous registration, and how mobile units and base stations select setup and voice channels for calls.

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Frequency Management and

Channel assignment
 Frequency Management :

Its function is to divide the total number of


available channels into subsets which can be assigned
to each cell either in a fixed fashion or dynamically.
Frequency spectrum utilization :

Frequency management involving the assignment


of proper cells can increase spectrum efficiency. Methods
to increase spectrum efficiency are:
1. Increasing the number of radio channel using narrow
banding, spread spectrum, or time division.
2. Improving spatial frequency-spectrum reuse.
3. Frequency management and channel assignment.
4. Improving spectrum efficiency in time.
Numbering the channels:

1. Total no of channels at present are 666.


2. Each Channel consists of 2 frequency bandwidths – low ,high
Ex: Channel 1
825.030 MHz (mobile transmit)
870.030 MHz (Cell site Transmit)
Channel 666
844.98 MHz (mobile transmit)
898 MHz (cell-site transmit)
3. Total 666 channels divided into 2 blocks – Block A , Block B
Voice channels are assigned :
Channels 1-312 (312 voice channels) block A
Channels 355-666 (312 voice channels) block B
42 set-up channels are assigned:
Channels 313-333 block A
Channels 334-354 block B
Set- up channels :
 Designed to set up calls.
 Also called control channels .
 Classified into two types
Access Channels : Used for mobile originating calls.
Paging Channels : Used for land originating calls.
In low traffic conditions ,access channels and paging channels
are same.
 Two operations in each set-up :
Forward set-up channel - Transmitted at the cell site.
Reverse set-up channel - Transmitted at the mobile unit.
Access Channels:
 Mobile unit scans its 21 set-up channels and chooses
the strongest one.
 When mobile unit scans the 21 set up channel in
block A, two conditions can occur.
1. If no setup channel of block A is optimal , the mobile
unit automatically switches to block B.
2. If a strong setup signal strength is received ,but no
message can be detected , then the scanner chooses the
second strongest channel. If the message still cannot be
detected , the mobile unit switches to block B and scans
block B setup channels.
Grouping of voice channels into sub sets:
 Total number of voice channels for each system
are 312.
 These 312 channel are grouped into 21 set-up
channels.
 Now each subset will contain 16 voice channels.
These 16 channels are then connected to a channel
combiner.
In order to maintain minimum isolation , the
adjacent channels are kept at large distance.
Paging Groups:
 Mobile station must calculate the paging group to
which the subscriber belongs.
 Consider if a cell has , 12 paging channels , then
all the GSM IMSIs in world will belong to one of these
paging channels .
Autonomous Registration:
 Method of registration in which the mobile station registers
without an explicit command from base station.
 Value of last registration number is REGID and the increment
in time between registration is REGINCR , next registration will be
NXTREG = REGID + REGINCR
Selecting a voice channel:
 Assume a mobile unit will respond to a call through a
reverse setup channel ,then the voice channel will be
assigned from a forward set up channel at one of the 3
120 degrees sector directional antenna.
For mobile – originating calls:
Mobile unit selects a cell site based on its
received signal-strength indicator reading (RSSI).
For Paging calls :
When any call responds to the cell site , the cell-
site RSSI will measure the incoming signal from the 3
directional antennas and find the strongest sector .
 Channel Assignment
 Allocation of specific channels to cell sites and
mobile units .
During a call, a particular channel is assigned to
a mobile unit.
In fixed channel assignment, two types of
channels are assigned – set-up & voice.
Set – up channels :
 There are 21 set up channels in each cell.
 If the set-up channel antennas are omni directional ,
then each cell needs one set-up channel.

Voice channels :

 Assignment of voice channels in each cell site is


based on causing minimum coc hannel and adjacent –
channel interference.

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