Title
Combined Transmit Beamforming and Channel-Aware Scheduling for Interference Mitigation in Femtocells.
Abstract
The introduction of femtocells in mobile networks gives rise to new co-layer and cross-layer interference scenarios. To mitigate interference, several approaches have been proposed in the literature including, e.g., transmit beamforming (TBF), power control, and fractional frequency reuse. In this article, we present an interference mitigation approach that relies on a low-rate control channel between the victim terminal and the interfering femto access point (FAP). The proposed method combines both, practical TBF schemes and simple one-bit channel-aware scheduling algorithms. We show that the proposed method can be effectively used not only to mitigate interference among FAPs, but also to balance user rates in adjacent cells with small signaling overhead.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1186/1687-1499-2012-293
EURASIP J. Wireless Comm. and Networking
Field
DocType
Volume
Control channel,Beamforming,Femto-,Femtocell,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Power control,Computer network,Communication channel,Interference (wave propagation)
Journal
2012
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1687-1499
14
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
16
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexis Alfredo Dowhuszko11379.96
Mika Juhani Husso2392.15
Jyri Hämäläinen354062.89