Modeling handovers in cellular mobile networks with dynamic channel allocation

Abstract

A model for a cellular mobile network is given which uses the dynamic channel allocation strategy proposed by Everitt and Macfadyen (1983). In this model, handovers of calls from one cell to another are explicitly included. The equilibrium distribution of this network is shown to have product form under certain reversibility conditions. The conditions are restrictive and are, perhaps, unlikely to hold in practical models. However, their study does provide insight into the behavior of cellular systems with dynamic channel allocation. Using the product-form equilibrium distribution we are able to express the blocking probability for new calls, and the blocking probability for handover calls in..