Wireless fractal cellular networks

Xiaohu Ge; Yehong Qiu; Jiaqi Chen; Meidong Huang; Hui Xu; Jing Xu; Wuxiong Zhang; Yang Yang; Cheng-Xiang Wang; John Thompson

doi:10.1109/MWC.2016.7721749

Wireless fractal cellular networks

Xiaohu Ge, Yehong Qiu, Jiaqi Chen, Meidong Huang, Hui Xu, Jing Xu, Wuxiong Zhang, Yang Yang, Cheng-Xiang Wang, John Thompson

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Abstract

With the seamless coverage of wireless cellular networks in modern society, it is interesting to consider the shape of wireless cellular coverage. Is the shape a regular hexagon, an irregular polygon, or another complex geometrical shape? Based on fractal theory, the statistical characteristic of the wireless cellular coverage boundary is determined by the measured wireless cellular data collected from Shanghai, China. The measured results indicate that the wireless cellular coverage boundary presents an extremely irregular geometrical shape, which is also called a statistical fractal shape. Moreover, the statistical fractal characteristics of the wireless cellular coverage boundary have been validated by values of the Hurst parameter estimated in angular scales. The statistical fractal characteristics of the wireless cellular coverage boundary can be used to evaluate and design the handoff scheme of mobile user terminals in wireless cellular networks.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	110-119
Number of pages	10
Journal	IEEE Wireless Communications
Volume	23
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2016.7721749
Publication status	Published - Oct 2016

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