Worst-case analysis of a dynamic channel assignment strategy Original Research Article

We consider the problem of channel assignment in cellular networks with arbitrary reuse distance. We show upper and lower bounds for the competitive ratio of a previously proposed and widely studied version of dynamic channel assignment, which we refer to as the greedy algorithm. We study two versions of this algorithm: one that performs reassignment of channels, and one that never reassigns channels to calls. For reuse distance 2, we show tight bounds on the competitive ratio of both versions of the algorithm. For reuse distance 3, we show non-trivial lower bounds for both versions of the algorithm.