10th EAI International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

An adaptive Frequency-domain Interference Coordination approach for different deployment of smallcell in Heterogeneous Network

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.15-8-2015.2260891,
        author={Gong Yi and Xinyu Gu and Lin Zhang and Wenyu Li and Xiaofei Zhao},
        title={An adaptive Frequency-domain Interference Coordination approach for different deployment of smallcell in Heterogeneous Network},
        proceedings={10th EAI International Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2015},
        month={9},
        keywords={heterogeneous networks frequency partition ratio power reduction interference coordination self-organizing network},
        doi={10.4108/eai.15-8-2015.2260891}
    }
    
  • Gong Yi
    Xinyu Gu
    Lin Zhang
    Wenyu Li
    Xiaofei Zhao
    Year: 2015
    An adaptive Frequency-domain Interference Coordination approach for different deployment of smallcell in Heterogeneous Network
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.15-8-2015.2260891
Gong Yi,*, Xinyu Gu1, Lin Zhang1, Wenyu Li1, Xiaofei Zhao1
  • 1: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
*Contact email: gongyi@bupt.edu.cn

Abstract

In the Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) heterogeneous networks (Het-Nets), smallcell is an emerging and key item, providing improved service coverage and high spectral efficiency with low power. However, the number and location arrangement of smallcell is always changing in reality, the interference scenario is also different. In order to reduce the layer-to-layer interference in uncertain deployment of smallcell, a method of frequency domain self-organizing interference coordination technology is proposed in this paper. In this method, the total spectrum bandwidth is divided into two parts according to a frequency partition ratio. One part of the bandwidth is called protected band where macrocell's transmission power will be reduced in an adaptively controlled way to schedule the edge UEs of smallcell and the center UEs of macrocell, another is named unprotected band to schedule the macro edge UEs and smallcells' center UEs. Thus, the edge UEs of smallcell could be protected under the condition of not losing too much macrocells' performance. The system-level simulation results show that the proposed scheme can achieve superior system performance improvements, and higher cell-edge user data rate.