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Measuring Cellular Coverage Inequalities: A Novel Index
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Signals and Systems.ORCID iD: 0009-0009-0332-3220
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Signals and Systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0726-065X
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Signals and Systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8647-436X
2025 (English)In: ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, IEEE, 2025, IEEE, 2025, p. 505-510Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This paper presents a new quantitative means to measure how cellular areal network coverage is distributed over a country or region, in particular the extent to which coverage is concentrated to urban regions. We present a new Cellular Coverage Inequality (CCI) index useful as a quantitative measure of fairness in a urban-rural perspective. Necessary data to determine the index are, on one hand, a geographical rurality map, essentially derived from a population map and, on the other hand, a cellular coverage map of the kind typically published by cellular operators. Our CCI-index then allows different cellular networks to be compared in terms of their coverage fairness and urban-rural inequality. Alternatively, the urban-rural coverage divide can be monitored over time. We give examples of the use of the CCI index for public coverage maps of Sweden over the years 2013-2020.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE, 2025. p. 505-510
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IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), E-ISSN 1938-1883
Keywords [en]
Cellular coverage, 6G, Urban-rural divide, Concentration index
National Category
Signal Processing Telecommunications
Research subject
Signal Processing
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-114919DOI: 10.1109/ICC52391.2025.11161651ISI: 001701279800029Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105018463188OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-114919DiVA, id: diva2:2002045
Conference
ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Montreal, QC, Canada, June 8-12, 2025
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Arctic 6GHexa-X-II
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Interreg AuroraEU, Horizon Europe
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ISBN for host publication: 979-8-3315-0521-9

Available from: 2025-09-29 Created: 2025-09-29 Last updated: 2026-06-26Bibliographically approved

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