creator Nguyen, Vincent Ahndzung creator Wan, Peng-jun creator Frieder, Ophir The invention disclosed is a process to allocate channels in a sectorized cellular network. A system of allocating cellular frequencies (channels) to the sectors among the cells within a tile is disclosed which maximizes channel set usage within the tile while avoiding co-channel interference between cells. According to the present system, no infrastructure rebuild is required. The disclosed approach further supports all currently used cellular technology. By alternating and rotating the channel assignments across sectors, what is a seemingly locally poor algorithm utilizing additional local channels is actually a globally good algorithm which is efficient in terms of the total number of channels used owing to short reuse distance and low number of cell types. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2012-05-02T17:42:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 8165591.pdf: 157106 bytes, checksum: 3797509672b816ffdea6f807fa5f5f0a (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-05-02T17:42:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8165591.pdf: 157106 bytes, checksum: 3797509672b816ffdea6f807fa5f5f0a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-04-24 Illinois Institute of Technology 2012-05-02 2012-04-24 8,165,591 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2735 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access