UCAN: A Unified Cellular and Ad Hoc Network Architecture
01 January 2003
In third generation (3G) wireless data networks, mobile users with poor channel quality usually have low data-rate connection to the base-station. Providing service to low data-rate users is required for maintaining fairness, but it reduces the cell's overall throughput. We propose the Unified Cellular and Ad-Hoc Network (UCAN) architecture for enhancing cell throughput, while maintaining fairness.