Title
Joint radio resource management for LTE-UMTS coexistence scenarios
Abstract
Constantly increasing demand for throughput and quality in wireless communication systems leads to continuous research of wise radio resource management, because of the scarce availability of frequency bands and the consequent capacity limitations. In addition, technology evolution is addressed towards spectral efficient techniques that can offer higher data rates. This is the case of OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access), introduced by 3GPP as the technology for future Long Term Evolution (LTE). However, given the current penetration of legacy technologies such as UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System), operators will have to deal with the coexistence of multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs), so that the exploitation of the complementarities between technologies through Joint Radio Resource Management (JRRM) mechanisms will be needed. In this paper we propose a novel dynamic JRRM algorithm for LTE-UMTS coexistence scenarios. The proposed mechanism is based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) which is considered to be a good candidate to achieve cognition in future reconfigurable networks. The proposed solution implements autonomous RL agents in each base station which decide on the allocation of the most suitable RAT to each user. We give a detailed description of the solution and analyze the behavior under various load conditions. We also demonstrate the capability of the algorithm to adjust in dynamic scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/PIMRC.2009.5450181
Tokyo
Keywords
Field
DocType
3G mobile communication,OFDM modulation,frequency division multiple access,3GPP,LTE-UMTS coexistence,OFDMA,joint radio resource management,multiple radio access technology,orthogonal frequency-division multiple access,reinforcement learning,spectral efficient technique,universal mobile telecommunications system,wireless communication system,LTE,WCDMA,joint radio resource management,reinforcement learning
Resource management,Radio resource management,Base station,UMTS frequency bands,Computer science,Computer network,Orthogonal frequency-division multiple access,Throughput,Frequency-division multiple access,Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-5123-4
2
0.42
References 
Authors
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nemanja Vučević1395.15
Jordi Pérez-Romero2184.13
Oriol Sallent3726.14
R. Agustí4533.57