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“We’re Sorry, You’re Outside the Coverage Area” 327 “We’re Sorry, You’re Outside the Coverage Area” Robert E. Broadhurst William J. Shanahan Michael D. Steffen Lewis and Clark College Portland, OR Advisor: Robert W. Owens Our Approach We assume that the physical transmission properties do not result in pen- etration or interference varying from channel to channel. Since the channels occupy a continuous portion of the frequency spectrum, they can be numbered with integers from 1 up to the number n of channels; n represents the bandwidth of the portion of the spectrum. The minimum possible value for the bandwidth that achieves all the requirements for a given transmitter arrangement we call the span of that arrangement. Our problem is to provide a method for arranging channels among the transmitters that achieves as low a bandwidth as possible. We analytically establish a lower limit for the span and we find the best solutions that we can to the given problem. The bandwidth of a feasible solution is an upper limit on the span. We seek to raise (through further analysis) the lower limit and to lower (through further construction) the upper limit. If our upper limit meets our lower limit, then we have completely determined the span. Requirements A and B are special instances of the more general problem posed in Requirement C; we treat A, B, and C as one main problem and solve them together. Requirement D asks us to consider generalizations of the prob- lem; we examine how to treat some of the weaknesses in our main problem. Finally, Requirement E asks us to write an article for the local newspaper, which appears at the end. c The UMAP Journal 21 (3) (2000) 327–342. Copyright 2000 by COMAP, Inc. All rights reserved. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or