
Chapter 1
cellular communications. However, many years would pass before a solution was actually
deployed.
Ring and Young’s seminal paper in 1947 addressed the problem of erosion of the RF spectrum,
as more and more users vied for a finite range of frequencies [2]. The breakthrough notion
involved obtaining a highly scalable degree of frequency reuse by dividing transmission and
reception areas into relatively small cells. By restricting the transmission power of the trans-
mitters in these cells, it became possible to reuse the same frequencies in not-too-distant cells.
This concept was the progenitor of the cellular networks that have become such