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Nowadays, both wireless network technology and coverage are widely developing and more mature. 3G or upcoming 4G cell based wireless network is the infrastructure in order to provide more high speed network services. No doubt, a large number of multimedia applications and more voice calls will consume more bandwidth as well as channel resources. An efficient channel assignment scheme could increase resources utilization and decrease drop rate and blocking rate. Therefore, the hierarchical cellular network is proposed for solving this issue. According to the basic rule of channel assignment, the different types of wireless traffic will be assigned to specific cellular or base station. In out study and model, we defined two types of traffic, voice call and multimedia data call which will be carried or transported by macrocell and microcell separately. When network congestion occurs and macrocell has no channel available, voice call is able to be transferred by microcell in stead of macrocell. For multimedia data call, the character of non real-time data transfer is allowed a longer waiting time. Therefore, we created a “channel pool” to collect these calls in order to decrease the possibility of overall block rate and to increase the system utilization.
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