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This paper considers the downlink of a cellular orthogonal frequency division multi-access (OFDMA) system, in which multiple base stations (BSs) are coordinated by a centralized resource allocation algorithm. We address the problem of maximizing the weighted sum of the minimal user rates (WSMR) of coordinated cells subject to a total power constraint at each BS, in terms of jointly optimizing coordinated...
Inter-cell interference is a major problem in multi-cell OFDMA systems and can severely degrade the system throughput, particularly for cell-edge users. An efficient technique to mitigate inter-cell interference (ICI), is interference coordination that allocates certain resources among users in different cells. In this paper, we propose a novel and distributed algorithm in order to mitigate the inter-cell...
In current cellular networks base stations (BSs) usually perform independent scheduling without coordinating the resource allocation among different cells. This, however, often leads to high interference levels in cellular networks operating with universal frequency reuse, such as the 3GPP UTRAN Long Term Evolution (LTE). Coordinated scheduling between different BSs may mitigate this problem by taking...
The race toward higher throughputs for cellular network users is getting more difficult everyday. On the one hand cellular network operators wish to increase benefits by offering new services to users, but on the other hand spare radio resource are shrinking away. The spreading of WiFi-3G dual mode devices is making this fight even harder. The new ”Femtocell” technology is expected to be the rescuer...
Game theory provides an adequate methodology for analyzing topics in communication systems that include trade-offs such as the subject of load balancing. As a means of balancing the load in the network, users are handed over from highly loaded cells to lower loaded neighbors increasing the capacity usage and the Quality of Service (QoS). The algorithm that calculates the amount of the load that each...
MIMO downlink with base station coordination in a cellular network is considered. In centralized coordinated transmission from a cluster of base stations, the channel state information (CSI) of users needs to be sent to a central processor for user scheduling and resource allocation. Real time CSI feedback from the users to their home base station and from the base stations to the central processor...
In this paper we develop a discrete and distributed optimization framework that maximizes the overall spectral efficiency of heterogeneous networks while ensuring a minimum fairness among users. We split the problem into two subproblems: the first one is handled by the users and consists in a transmission by each user of a minimum rate requirement to the base stations and the second is the resource...
We consider a wireless downlink network with a single base-station, N mobile users and L shared on-off channels. Each mobile user receives a downlink traffic flow from the base-station where a separate queue is maintained for each flow. In this multi-channel downlink network, throughput-optimal scheduling algorithms such as the MaxWeight scheduling require the complete channel state information (i...
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