Title
A Two-Stage Dynamic Channel Assignment Scheme With Graph Approach For Dense Femtocell Networks
Abstract
In dense femtocell networks (DFNs), one of the main issues is interference management since interference between femtocell access points (FAPs) reduces the system performance significantly. Further, FAPs serve different numbers of femtocell user equipments (FUEs), i.e.. some FAPs have more than one FUE while others have one or no FUEs. Therefore, for DFNs, an intelligent channel assignment scheme is necessary considering both the number of FUEs connected to the same FAPs and interference mitigation to improve system performance. This paper proposes a two-stage dynamic channel assignment (TS-DCA) scheme for downlink DFNs based on orthogonal frequency division multiple access/frequency division duplex (OFDMA/FDD). In stage 1. using graph coloring algorithm, a femtocell gateway (FGW) first groups FUEs based on an interference graph that considers different numbers of FUEs per FAP. Then, in stage 2, the FGW dynamically assigns subchannels to FUE clusters according to the order of maximum capacity of FAP clusters. In addition, FAPs adaptively assign remaining subchannels in FUE clusters to their FUEs in other FUE clusters. Through simulations, we first find optimum parameters of the FUE clustering to maximize the system capacity and then evaluate system performance in terms of the mean FUE capacity, unsatisfied FUE probability, and mean FAP transmission energy consumption according to the different numbers of FUEs and FAPs with a given FUE traffic load.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1587/transcom.E97.B.2222
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
dense femtocell networks, OFDMA/FDD, interference mitigation, dynamic channel assignment, graph coloring
Graph,Femtocell,Computer science,Communication channel,Computer network,Graph coloring,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E97B
10
0916-8516
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.54
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Se-Jin Kim1328.85
Ilkwon Cho2224.46
Yi-Kang Kim340.54
Choong-Ho Cho414226.72