id: 06021737 dt: j an: 06021737 au: Kim, Hyungman; Melikov, Agassi; Fattakhova, Mehriban; Kim, Chesoong ti: An analytical approach to the analysis of guard-channel-based call admission control in wireless cellular networks. so: J. Appl. Math. 2012, Article ID 676582, 14 p. (2012). py: 2012 pu: Hindawi Publishing Corporation, New York, NY la: EN cc: ut: ci: li: doi:10.1155/2012/676582 ab: Summary: We develop an analytical approach to the performance analysis and optimization of wireless cellular networks for which different types of calls are prioritized based on a channel reservation scheme. We assume that the channel occupancy time differs for new and handover calls. We obtain simple formulas for calculating quality of service (QoS) metrics and solve some problems related to finding the optimal values of guard channels as well as present the results of numerical experiments. rv: