TY - GEN
T1 - Fractional frequency reuse in integrated femtocell/macrocell environments
AU - Bouras, Christos
AU - Kokkinos, Vasileios
AU - Papazois, Andreas
AU - Tseliou, Georgia
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Femtocells have a strong potential for increasing the efficiency, cell coverage and network capacity of next-generation mobile networks. In Long Term Evolution technology, the adaptation of Fractional Frequency Reuse techniques has been proposed in order to overcome the co-channel interference and augment the total throughput of the network. In this work, we propose a Fractional Frequency Reuse method that on the one hand calculates the optimal inner region radius and frequency allocation of a macrocell and on the other hand assigns frequency resources to the femtocells in order to mitigate the co-channel interference. We apply this method in an integrated femtocell/macrocell environment and evaluate it based on the optimization of three metrics, depending on the network operator's needs.
AB - Femtocells have a strong potential for increasing the efficiency, cell coverage and network capacity of next-generation mobile networks. In Long Term Evolution technology, the adaptation of Fractional Frequency Reuse techniques has been proposed in order to overcome the co-channel interference and augment the total throughput of the network. In this work, we propose a Fractional Frequency Reuse method that on the one hand calculates the optimal inner region radius and frequency allocation of a macrocell and on the other hand assigns frequency resources to the femtocells in order to mitigate the co-channel interference. We apply this method in an integrated femtocell/macrocell environment and evaluate it based on the optimization of three metrics, depending on the network operator's needs.
KW - channel interference
KW - Fractional frequency reuse
KW - throughput
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-38401-1_18
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-38401-1_18
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84883319329
SN - 9783642384004
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 229
EP - 240
BT - Wired/Wireless Internet Communication - 11th International Conference, WWIC 2013, Proceedings
T2 - 11th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications, WWIC 2013
Y2 - 5 June 2013 through 7 June 2013
ER -