The First International ICST Workshop on Pervasive Computing Systems and Infrastructures

Research Article

Fractional Frequency Reuse Schemes and Performance Evaluation for OFDMA Multi-hop Cellular Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976243,
        author={Yue Zhao and Xuming Fang and Xiaopeng Hu and Zhengguang Zhao and Yan Long},
        title={Fractional Frequency Reuse Schemes and Performance Evaluation for OFDMA Multi-hop Cellular Networks},
        proceedings={The First International ICST Workshop on Pervasive Computing Systems and Infrastructures},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={PCSI},
        year={2009},
        month={5},
        keywords={fractional frequency reuse; resource allocation; inter-cell interference (ICI); local forwarding},
        doi={10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976243}
    }
    
  • Yue Zhao
    Xuming Fang
    Xiaopeng Hu
    Zhengguang Zhao
    Yan Long
    Year: 2009
    Fractional Frequency Reuse Schemes and Performance Evaluation for OFDMA Multi-hop Cellular Networks
    PCSI
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976243
Yue Zhao1,*, Xuming Fang1,*, Xiaopeng Hu1, Zhengguang Zhao1, Yan Long1
  • 1: Provincial Key Lab of Information Coding & Transmission Southwest Jiaotong University Chengdu 610031, China
*Contact email: yuehao@foxmail_com, xmfang@swjtu.edu.cn

Abstract

For the next generation wireless communication systems, inter-cell interference (ICI) is the primary cause of performance degradation in cell edge mobile stations of OFDMA multi-hop cellular networks with the frequency reuse pattern (1, 3, 1). This paper introduces a new fractional frequency reuse scheme to assign radio resources in OFDMA multi-hop networks to reduce inter-cell interference and maintain the sector frequency reuse factor at 1. Through the numerical analysis, we find that this scheme can yield higher SINR and improve the system capacity. Furthermore, the results also indicate that fractional frequency reuse relay system with local forwarding scheme can achieve higher throughput than local forwarding scheme in conventional relay system.