Wireless Fractal Cellular Networks
Abstract
With the seamless coverage of wireless cellular networks in modern society, it is interesting to consider the shape of wireless cellular coverage. Is the shape a regular hexagon, an irregular polygon, or another complex geometrical shape? Based on fractal theory, the statistical characteristic of the wireless cellular coverage boundary is determined by the measured wireless cellular data collected from Shanghai, China. The measured results indicate that the wireless cellular coverage boundary presents an extremely irregular geometrical shape, which is also called a statistical fractal shape. Moreover, the statistical fractal characteristics of the wireless cellular coverage boundary have been validated by values of the Hurst parameter estimated in angular scales. The statistical fractal characteristics of the wireless cellular coverage boundary can be used to evaluate and design the handoff scheme of mobile user terminals in wireless cellular networks.
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@article{arxiv.1610.05431,
title = {Wireless Fractal Cellular Networks},
author = {Xiaohu Ge and Yehong Qiu and Jiaqi Chen and Meidong Huang and Hui Xu and Jing Xu and Wuxiong Zhang and Yang Yang and Cheng-Xiang Wang and John Thompson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.05431},
year = {2016}
}
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16 pages, 4 figures