Design of cell size and frequency reuse for a millimeterwave highway coverage cellular communications system

A model was presented for the design tradeoffs between reuse distance D and coverage length R for cellular planning of a linear coverage situation. This model allows the determination of (R,D) pairs satisfying given raw bit error rate constraints. A "net cost model" was also presented, and the dependence of the cost on the reuse distance was studied. The existence of profitable cell configurations for the system were discussed. The noise/interference, cost, and revenue models used consisted of simple linear functions, but the approach followed is general in the sense that the same steps can be used if more complex models are used.