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In wireless cellular systems, a code division multiple access (CDMA) technology with array antennas can significantly reduce interferences by taking advantage of the combination of spreading spectrum and spatial filtering. We investigate blocking probabilities of multi-beam CDMA systems using switched beamforming (SBF) array antennas considering non-homogeneous traffic loading over a cell which may cause traffic congestion and introduce large blocking probability in a hot-spot area. We also propose a feasible main beamwidth deployment and a beam reassignment (BR) method to mitigate the hot-spot beam, named the hot-beam. The feasible main beamwidth deployment suggests that we can relieve the hot-beam situation by deploying the feasible main beamwidth which can guarantee below 1% blocking probability. Using the BR method, the blocking probability of hot-beam and total blocking probability over a cell are significantly reduced. Further, it is shown that the feasible traffic load ratio of the hot-beam to the lightly loaded beam is significantly enhanced when the total blocking probability of the cell is maintained below 1%.
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Hyunduk Kang received the B. Eng. degree in electronics engineering from the Dong-A University, Busan, South Korea, in 1997, and the M.S. degrees in information and communications engineering from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, South Korea, in 1999. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in information and communications engineering from the GIST. His current research interests include performance analysis and resource management of next generation mobile communications and wireless sensor networks.
Seokjin Sung received the B.Eng. degree in radio science and communication engineering from the Hong-Ik University, Seoul, South Korea in 2002, and the M.S. degree in information and communications engineering from the GIST, Gwangju, South Korea in 2004. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in information and communications engineering from the GIST. His research interests are in the areas of adaptive smart antenna system design and analysis for moving-user environments.
Insoo Koo received the B.Eng. degree in electronics engineering from the Kon-Kuk University, Seoul, South Korea, in 1996, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in information and communications engineering from the GIST, Gwangju, South Korea, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. From 2002 to 2004, he was with the GIST as a Research Professor. In 2005, he joined the University of Ulsan where he is presently an Assistant Professor. His current research interests include next generation mobile communications and wireless sensor networks.
Kiseon Kim received the B.Eng and M.Eng from the Seoul National University, all in electronics engineering, in 1978 and 1980, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1987, in electrical engineering-systems. From 1988 to 1991, he was with Schlumberger in Texas, as a Senior Development Engineer where he has been involved in development of telemetry systems. From 1991 to 1994, he was a Computer Communications Specialist for Superconducting Super Collider Lab., in TX, where he has built telemetry logging and analysis systems for high energy physics instrumentations. Since joining the GIST, in 1994, he is presently a Professor. His research interests include wideband digital communications system design, analysis and implementation.
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Kang, H., Sung, S., Koo, I. et al. On Blocking Probability of Multi-Beam CDMA Systems Using SBF Array Antennas. Wireless Pers Commun 35, 87–98 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-005-8741-y
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