A study of radio network design strategies

The paper deals with the problem of performance of radio network design strategies for cellular systems under uncertain load conditions. As a first exploratory step, it examines the simplest possible case of a one-dimensional traffic region with homogeneous propagation conditions. Three strategies are defined in sufficient detail, among them two possible interpretations of the general cell splitting methodology. Our results indicate that the stable existence of networks composed of cells of different size is crucial to the efficiency of a radio network design strategy.