Ali Alnaqeeb

The coverage of mobile cellular networks is non-uniform (even in urban areas) due to inter-cell interference and signal fading. To address this problem, this research proposal aims to investigate novel and practical methods to provide uniform network coverage. One such method that is aimed to be investigated particularly is “Cell Sweeping” in which the sectors of a base station (BS) are swept electrically over a part or entire 360° in the azimuth plane (and / or elevation plane). The sweeping cells allow the users to be served on the antenna boresight beam with enhanced gain and hence improves the network cell-edge performance significantly.