Title
Spectral Efficiency of Dynamic Coordinated Beamforming: A Stochastic Geometry Approach
Abstract
This paper characterizes the performance of coordinated beamforming with dynamic clustering. A downlink model based on stochastic geometry is put forth to analyze the performance of such a base station (BS) coordination strategy. Analytical expressions for the complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) of the instantaneous signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) are derived in terms of relevant system parameters, chiefly the number of BSs forming the coordination clusters, the number of antennas per BS, and the pathloss exponent. Utilizing this CCDF, with pilot overheads further incorporated into the analysis, we formulate the optimization of the BS coordination clusters for a given fading coherence. Our results indicate that: 1) coordinated beamforming is most beneficial to users that are in the outer part of their cells yet in the inner part of their coordination cluster and that 2) the optimal cluster cardinality for the typical user is small and it scales with the fading coherence. Simulation results verify the exactness of the SIR distributions derived for stochastic geometries, which are further compared with the corresponding distributions for deterministic grid networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/TWC.2014.2337305
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
optimisation,optimal cluster cardinality,stochastic geometry,dynamic coordinated beamforming,coordinated beamforming,cellular radio,ccdf,base station coordination strategy,deterministic grid networks,bs coordination strategy,sir distributions,stochastic geometry approach,array signal processing,cellular network,fading coherence,optimization,dynamic clustering,complementary cumulative distribution function,spectral efficiency,fading,wireless communication,interference,geometry,stochastic processes,silicon
Journal
14
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1536-1276
36
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.01
29
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Namyoon Lee185762.30
David Morales-Jiménez219519.00
Angel Lozano3227694.86
Robert W. Heath414415885.64