Paper Info
Title
Coverage and Rate Analysis for Location-Aware Cross-Tier Cooperation in Two-Tier HetNets.
Abstract
Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) are regarded as a promising approach to handle the deluge of mobile data traffic. With the co-channel deployment of small cells, the coverage and capacity of the network will be improved. However, the conventional maximum-received-power (MRP) user association scheme and cross-tier interference issue significantly diminish the performance gain provided by small cells. In this paper, we propose a novel location-aware cross-tier cooperation (LA-CTC) scheme for jointly achieving load balancing and interference mitigation in two-tier HetNets. In detail, we define an inner region for each macro base station (MBS) where the femto base stations (FBSs) will be deactivated, and thereby the users within the inner region will only be served by the MBS. Subsequently, for the users located in the outer region, the proposed scheme only uses coordinated multipoint (CoMP) transmission by two tiers of BSs to eliminate the excessive cross-tier interference suffered by offloaded users, whereas users with good locations are served directly by either a MBS or a FBS. Using tools of stochastic geometry, we derived the analytical expressions for the coverage probability and average rate of a randomly chosen user. Meanwhile, the analytical results were validated through Monte Carlo simulations. The numerical results show that the proposed scheme can improve the performance of networks significantly. Moreover, we compare the performance of the proposed scheme with that of the conventional MRP scheme, the cell range expansion (CRE) scheme and the location-aware cross-tier CoMP transmission (LA-CTCT) scheme in the literature. Numerical comparisons revealed that the proposed LA-CTC scheme outperforms the other three schemes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.3390/sym9080157
SYMMETRY-BASEL
Keywords
Field
DocType
heterogeneous networks,location aware,CoMP,coverage probability,average rate,stochastic geometry
Stochastic geometry,Monte Carlo method,Association scheme,Load balancing (computing),Simulation,Mathematical analysis,Computer network,Interference (wave propagation),Heterogeneous network,Coverage probability,Mobile broadband,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
9
8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
35
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lili Guo1117.94
Shanya Cong200.34