Interference and Resource Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Interference and Resource Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Author: Jiandong Li
Publisher: Artech House
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2017-11-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1630815098

This authoritative resource offers a comprehensive overview of heterogeneous wireless networks, small cells, and device-to-device (D2D) communications. The book provides insight into network modeling and performance analysis of heterogeneous wireless networks. Interference management framework and design issues are covered as well as details about resource mobility, channel models, and typical and statistical interference modeling. This resource explains leveraging resource heterogeneity in interference mitigation and presents the challenges and feasible solutions for concurrent transmission. Moreover, complete coverage of interference alignment in MIMO heterogeneous networks for both downlink and uplink is presented. This book provides performance results for an ideal partially connected interference network as well as a practical heterogeneous network. Readers find practical guidance for LTE and LTE-Advanced as well as 5G in this resource. New techniques and designs for heterogeneous wireless networks are included.

Exploiting the Ability of Self Organizing Networks for Inter-cell Interference Coordination for Emergency Communications in Cellular Networks

Exploiting the Ability of Self Organizing Networks for Inter-cell Interference Coordination for Emergency Communications in Cellular Networks
Author: Siva Sai Karthik Kesanakurthi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2014
Genre: Cell phone systems
ISBN:

In the current scenario, radio planning of wireless cellular networks and analysis of radio performance should be agile because it is expected that in the near future we will be reaching to the point where there will be as many mobile devices as people in the world. So, there should be a rapid revolution in technology which can aid in the management of resources and maximization of throughput to satisfy users effectively. LTE and LTE-Advanced is designed to meet high bit rate service requirements; however, the initial challenge of the wireless channel, such as limited spectrum, leads to frequency reuse but also irrevocable interference. This thesis gives a holistic conspectus of interference coordination in LTE cellular systems utilizing the ability of Self Organizing Networks (SON). LTE uses a universal frequency reuse concept and the only interference observed in LTE is inter-cell interference. In a network where users are randomly distributed over three cells, it manages resources between the base stations by restricting some resource blocks for Cell Edge Users (CEU) of the neighboring cell and other resource blocks for Cell Center Users (CCU). This is done in a semi-static approach by taking into account the location of the user and varying channel conditions. Cell edge users and cell center users are distinguished based upon the SINR level. The management of the resources are regulated as per the user requirements and coordinated by the neighboring cells. The results have been simulated in two different ambiances viz., normal traffic and the emergency condition to show its performance in exigency. The throughput of the CCUs and CEUs in normal traffic has been compared. Also, the approach and results are shown to be highly reliable.

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.