Cooperation Strategies for Inter-cell Interference Mitigation in OFDMA Systems

Cooperation Strategies for Inter-cell Interference Mitigation in OFDMA Systems
Author: Reben Kurda
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre:
ISBN:

Recently the use of modern cellular networks has drastically changed with the emerging Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) technology. Homogeneous networks which were initially designed for voice-centric and low data rates face unprecedented challenges for meeting the increasing traffic demands of high data-driven applications and their important quality of service requirements. Therefore, these networks are moving towards the so called Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets). HetNets represent a new paradigm for cellular networks as their nodes have different characteristics such as transmission power and radio frequency coverage area. Consequently, a HetNet shows completely different interference characteristics compared to homogeneous deployment and attention must be paid to these disparities when different tiers are collocated together. This is mostly due to the potential spectrum frequency reuse by the involved tiers in the HetNets. Hence, efficient inter-cell interference mitigation solutions in co-channel deployments of HetNets remain a challenge for both industry and academic researchers. This thesis focuses on LTE-A HetNet systems which are based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Access (OFDMA) modulation. Our aim is to investigate the aggressive interference issue that appears when different types of base stations are jointly deployed together and especially in two cases, namely Macro-Femtocells and Macro-Picocells co-existence. We propose new practical power adjustment solutions for managing inter-cell interference dynamically for both cases. In the first part dedicated to Femtocells and Macrocell coexistence, we design a MBS-assisted femtocell power adjustment strategy which takes into account femtocells users performance while mitigating the inter-cell interference on victim macrocell users. Further, we propose a new cooperative and context-aware interference mitigation method which is derived for realistic scenarios involving mobility of users and their varying locations. We proved numerically that the Femtocells are able to maintain their interference under a desirable threshold by adjusting their transmission power. Our strategies provide an efficient means for achieving the desired level of macrocell/femtocell throughput trade-off. In the second part of the studies where Picocells are deployed under the umbrella of the Macrocell, we paid a special attention and efforts to the interference management in the situation where Picocells are configured to set up a cell range expansion. We suggest a MBS-assisted collaborative scheme powered by an analytical model to predict the mobility of Macrocell users passing through the cell range expansion area of the picocell. Our goal is to adapt the muting ratio ruling the frequency resource partitioning between both tiers according to the mobility behavior of the range-expanded users, thereby providing an efficient trade-off between Macrocell and Picocell achievable throughputs.

Issues in Telecommunications Research: 2011 Edition

Issues in Telecommunications Research: 2011 Edition
Author:
Publisher: ScholarlyEditions
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2012-01-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1464966486

Issues in Telecommunications Research / 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Telecommunications Research. The editors have built Issues in Telecommunications Research: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Telecommunications Research in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Telecommunications Research: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Informatics Engineering and Information Science, Part III

Informatics Engineering and Information Science, Part III
Author: Azizah Abd Manaf
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 741
Release: 2011-11-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642254624

This 4-Volume-Set, CCIS 0251 - CCIS 0254, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Informatics Engineering and Information Science, ICIEIS 2011, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in November 2011. The 210 revised full papers presented together with invited papers in the 4 volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on e-learning, information security, software engineering, image processing, algorithms, artificial intelligence and soft computing, e-commerce, data mining, neural networks, social networks, grid computing, biometric technologies, networks, distributed and parallel computing, wireless networks, information and data management, web applications and software systems, multimedia, ad hoc networks, mobile computing, as well as miscellaneous topics in digital information and communications.

Efficient Resource Allocation in Uplink OFDMA Systems

Efficient Resource Allocation in Uplink OFDMA Systems
Author: Elias Edward Yaacoub
Publisher:
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2010
Genre:
ISBN:

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) has been selected as the accessing scheme for state-of-the-art next generation mobile communication systems. The high data rates expected for current and next generation broadband wireless access systems, such as 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) and WiMAX (IEEE 802.16) necessitate an efficient use of the available resources. Downlink resource allocation in OFDMA systems has received a lot of attention, with relatively less work done on the uplink. The distributed nature of the power constraint in the uplink makes the uplink resource allocation problem more challenging than its downlink counterpart. In this dissertation, the ergodic weighted sum-rate maximization problem in the uplink of single cell OFDMA systems with continuous and discrete rates is formulated and solved. Novel low-complexity suboptimal scheduling algorithms are proposed and shown to perform closely to the optimal solution. These algorithms are generalized to include utility maximization in general, with a focus on proportional fairness. In addition, the results are extended to a distributed base station scenario, and distributed scheduling techniques with and without user cooperation are developed. Furthermore, the problem of uplink resource allocation in a multicell scenario is addressed. Several novel intercell interference mitigation techniques are proposed, in both the centralized and distributed scheduling cases, with and without base station collaboration. Finally, the applicability of the proposed resource allocation algorithms in state-of-the-art wireless systems like LTE and WiMAX is studied.

Interference Mitigation Techniques for Heterogeneous Network

Interference Mitigation Techniques for Heterogeneous Network
Author: Vikram Santhanam
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2013
Genre:
ISBN: 9783659344688

In this book, a new frequency reuse scheme is proposed to mitigate the inter-cell interference for the future OFDM based systems. In addition, a new frequency allocation technique and power allocation methods are illustrated. This provides an efficient spectrum allocation at the edge and center of the cell to co-ordinate with Femtocells and Macrocells for better network performance. It has been observed from the results that this novel technique with the Femtocells guarantees significantly increased data-rate, increased network power efficiency, frequency reuse factor of one through-out the cell, reduced inter-cell interference and increased network capacity with simple design to meet the QoS need of users. This frequency reuse scheme provides a solution for current challenges in wireless industries by offering a simple and efficient inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) technique for the next-generation wireless network.

Radio Technologies and Concepts for IMT-Advanced

Radio Technologies and Concepts for IMT-Advanced
Author: Martin Döttling
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0470748087

Radio Technologies and Concepts for IMT-Advanced presents the findings of the Wireless World Initiative New Radio (WINNER) project in Framework Program 6 of the European Commission. It provides an insight into the key concepts and technologies for the IMT-Advanced radio interface, based on the collaborative research of manufacturers, network operators, research centres and universities within WINNER. The book covers the fundamental radio characteristics of a typical 4G wireless communication system, focusing on the transceiver’s chain from the physical layer to layers 2 and 3. Starting by defining realistic and futuristic usage scenarios, the authors provide in-depth discussion of key technologies including modulation and coding, link level procedures, spatial-temporal processing, multiple access schemes and inter-cell interference mitigation, channel estimation and newly developed channel models. Finally, a cost assessment and optimisation methodology is developed for different deployment concepts in order to assess a wireless system in a condition close to reality. The book provides an important system-level approach to the latest radio technologies in the field, and evaluates IMT-Advanced research in relation to international standardisation. Presents the research findings of IMT-Advanced radio interface from the WINNER project Covers the latest concepts for relaying, multiple access, radio resource control, flexible spectrum use, and ITU-R spectrum demand calculation Examines the most recent Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO) techniques, and Distributed Antenna Systems (Coordinated Multipoint Transmissions) Describes a 4G system concept and all major building blocks Provides 4G propagation models and system-level evaluation methodologies