Distributed Measurement-Based Quasi-Fixed Frequency Assignment for TDMA Personal Communications Systems

Matthew M.-L. CHENG
Justin C.-I. CHUANG

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E78-B    No.8    pp.1179-1186
Publication Date: 1995/08/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Technologies for High-Speed Mobile Communications)
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channel assignment,  frequency reuse,  personal communications,  

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Summary: 
The distributed measurement-based quasi-fixed frequency assignment (also known as quasi-static adaptive frequency assignment-QSAFA) methodology is a practical solution for frequency assignment in the emerging TDMA personal communications networks (PCN/PCS). Five different QSAFA algorithms are studied in this paper under different interference threshold settings. It is found that a simple aggressive algorithm without using a threshold (LIA-Least Interference Algorithm) performs the best under the conditions studied. The performance of this algorithm is also justified by the theoretical proof presented at the end of this paper.