Title
Dynamic Strict Fractional Frequency Reuse For Software-Defined 5g Networks
Abstract
The surge of mobile data traffic has spurred academia and industries to begin developing 5G networks. 5G is meant to overcome limitations of 4G cellular technology relying on the dominant trend of mobile network densification with the deployment of small cell base stations. To accelerate this process, low complexity and inexpensive remote radio heads (RRHs) are deployed massively and connected to a centralized pool of resources. In this work, we study the problem of inter-cell interference (ICI) which arises in frequency reuse one multi-tier 5G networks. We entrust the management of RRHs to a software-defined network controller and we take advantage of network functions virtualization. Our contributions consist of proposing Dynamic Strict Fractional Frequency Reuse (DSFFR), a method to relieve ICI which dynamically divides the small cell area in a different number of sectors. Furthermore, we formulate a joint scheduling problem composed of two schedulers which operate at different time granularity to transmit downlink packets. Modeling the coverage area with the tool of stochastic geometry and solving with simulations the joint scheduling problem, we are able to show that DSFFR outperforms the static scheme. Performances are addressed in terms of spectral efficiency and packet blocking probability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ICC.2016.7510890
2016 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (ICC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
5G, Small Cells, Software-Defined Networking, FFR, Spatial Scheduling, SINR, MCS
Radio resource management,Base station,Job shop scheduling,Scheduling (computing),Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Real-time computing,Spectral efficiency,Cellular network,Network interface controller
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-3607
3
0.39
References 
Authors
9
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anteneh A. Gebremariam1665.85
Tingnan Bao272.19
Domenico Siracusa37119.37
Tinku Rasheed453946.43
Fabrizio Granelli591394.51
Leonardo Goratti633437.38