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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 05, 1998
Simon C Borst, North Plainfield, NJ (US);
Sudheer A Grandhi, Lake Hiawatha, NJ (US);
Joe Huang, Bloomfield, NJ (US);
Colin L Kahn, Cedar Knolls, NJ (US);
Krishnan Kumaran, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Bulin B Zhang, Branchville, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
In a cellular system, channels are assigned for new calls using a flexible channel allocation algorithm that is a hybrid of a measurement-based dynamic channel assignment (MBDCA) algorithm and a reuse-distance criterion algorithm, such as a cost-function-based DCA (CFBDCA). In one embodiment, the MBDCA algorithm is implemented at each cell site in the cellular system and generates a list of candidate channels for each new call. The list is transmitted to the mobile switching center (MSC), which implements the CFBDCA algorithm to select a particular channel from the list of candidate channels for the new call.