Plane cover multiple access: a new approach to maximizing cellular system capacity

We develop a new Media Access Control strategy, called Plane Cover Multiple Access (PCMA), that provides a means of allocating wireless bandwidth in a packet based cellular system. PCMA seeks to maximize the number of parallel transmissions among cells by defining virtual cells in which users transmit using a given reuse factor. By keeping the reuse factors low, system throughput can be maximized. We show that the throughput of a simple system designed using PCMA is up to more efficient than CDPA, the best known alternative for the cellular, mobile environment. Keywords— wireless, packet switching, frequency reuse, multiple access, cellular, Reuse Partitioning