CUTOFF PRIORITY SCHEDULING IN MOBILE CELLULAR COMMUNICATION-SYSTEMS

A mobile cellular communication system is considered. The calls arriving at the base station of each cell are modeled by a queueing system with two arrival streams. Stream 1 (also called class 1) arrivals are those calls in progress that are handed over to the cell from other cells, and class 2 arrivals are those calls that are originating in the cell. The guard channel scheme is considered in which arriving calls are indiscriminately assigned channels within a cell as long as the number of busy channels in the cell is below a predefined threshold. When this number reaches the threshold, only arriving class 1 calls are assigned channels immediately; arriving class 2 calls are queued. When all the channels are busy, then arriving class 1 calls are lost while class 2 calls continue to be queued. The system is analyzed by a generating function method which utilizes the structure of the model to give a very concise solution.