Power control based admission policies in cellular radio networks

Abstract

The problem of limiting the cochannel interference between transmitter-receiver pairs in a cellular network to acceptable levels, while accommodating as many transmissions as possible, is addressed. The controllable network parameters, are the transmission powers of the base stations, and possibly of mobiles too, in the cells. Efficient adaptive control of the powers guarantees quality of service above a certain threshold at all times, given the continuously changing traffic of communication requests in the network. The quality criterion used in this study is the carrier-to-interference ratio (C/I) at the receiver.< >