Title
Dynamic time-domain resource allocation in heterogeneous small cell networks based on bursty traffic
Abstract
To further improve spectrum efficiency, small cell is regarded as a promising approach by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) framework. However, when small cells are co-channel deployed with macro cells, interference is an inevitable problem and severely restricts the system performance. In order to maximize the offloading benefits of small cells and mitigate the interference from the macro cell tier to the small cell tier, cell range expansion (CRE) and almost blank subframes (ABS) have been designed for small cells and macro cells, respectively. In this paper, a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) based offloading strategy is investigated. Based on bursty traffic load, each macro cell decides its ABS pattern distributedly. Moreover, a new scheduling policy is proposed to deal with staggered ABS patterns in adjacent macro cells. System-level simulation results could verify that compared with traditional fixed CRE bias and ABS operations, our proposed scheme can achieve superior performance gains in terms of downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) packet throughput.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICCChina.2014.7008351
Communications in China
Keywords
Field
DocType
3g mobile communication,cellular radio,cochannel interference,radiofrequency interference,resource allocation,telecommunication scheduling,telecommunication traffic,time-domain analysis,3gpp framework,abs pattern,rsrq strategy,almost blank subframes,bursty traffic,cell range expansion,co-channel deployment,downlink packet throughput,dynamic time-domain resource allocation,heterogeneous small cell networks,macro cells,reference signal received quality,scheduling policy,spectrum efficiency improvement,system-level simulation,third generation partnership project framework,uplink packet throughput,gain,dynamic scheduling,wireless communication,interference,downlink
Scheduling (computing),Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Resource allocation,Small cell,Spectral efficiency,Throughput,Dynamic priority scheduling,3rd Generation Partnership Project 2,Macro
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.39
9
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ruiqi Xue171.52
Meng Zhang2415.75
Hui Yu320018.98
Hanwen Luo448541.10
Xiaoying Gan534448.16