# Cell breathing A term describing the variation of the service coverage with respect to the load of the system. ![](Public%20Extras/Doodles/TELE4652%20Lecture%201A-attachment-3.png#invert) The cell shrinks and expands. The transmit power of user 3 is at maximum but it can't maintain a reasonable size - cell size shrinks. When user 1 and 2 are gone, the interference is low and user 3 can connect to the [BS](Base%20station.md) (the cell size grows) [^1] # References [^1]: