4G Femtocells
Resource Allocation and Interference Management
Chapter and Conference Paper
In order to solve the problem of wireless resource scarcity, a novel heterogeneous network of power line carrier and wireless network (IPWN) is proposed. IPWN employs extended attractor selection algorithm (EA...
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User-centric and energy efficient are becoming two foremost design principles in the cloud radio access networks (Cloud-RAN). In this paper, we thus consider the problem of how to assign each user to several p...
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This paper investigates the energy-efficient radio resource allocation problem of the uplink smallcell networks. Different from the existing literatures which focus on improving the energy efficiency (EE) or p...
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Due to the dense deployed base stations and the growing traffic of best effort (BE) services, frequent bursty interference becomes one of major challenges to assure quality of experience (QoE) for real-time vi...
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Dense small cell networks are deployed for future wireless communication to meet the ever-increasing mobile traffic demand. However, network densification will significantly increase the energy budget and lead...
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Cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN) is recognized as one of the key enabling techniques for 5G due to its advantages in flexibility. In addition, the greatly increased energy efficiency (EE, evaluated by bi...
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The unforeseen mobile data explosion poses a major challenge to the performance of today’s cellular networks, and is in urgent need of novel solutions to handle such voluminous mobile data. Obviously, data off...
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Future wireless networks are expected to be heterogeneous with dense deployed small cells to achieving an unprecedented system capacity. In the dense deployment scenario, interference manifests new feature and...
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With quality of experience (QoE) taking a center stage in the evaluation of wireless telecommunication system, optimizing the performance of heterogeneous wireless networks (HWNs) is in need of taking service ...
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Femtocell is a promising technique to enhance indoor coverage and improve network capacity. Nevertheless, because of the random and co-channel deployment of femtocells, the macrocell will suffer serious cross-...
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Dense heterogeneous networks (HetNets) are supposed to be one of the most inevitable modalities of future radio access networks (RAN). Though the deployment of dense HetNets would allow wireless networks to ac...
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Femtocell is a promising solution for enhancing the indoor coverage and capacity in wireless networks. However, for the small size of femtocell and potentially frequent power on/off, existing handover schemes ...
Book
Chapter
This chapter focuses on the resource allocation of femtocells in the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) networks. A typical algorithm of swarm intelligence called Ant Colony Optimization (AC...
Chapter
In this chapter, we consider the joint subchannel and power allocation problem in both the uplink and the downlink for two-tier networks comprising spectrum-sharing macrocells and femtocells. A joint subchanne...
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Femtocells, combined with orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), can improve cellular coverage and offload traffics from existing macrocells. However, the co-channel deployment of femtocells is...
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Femtocells have been proposed for improving the performance of indoor users to provide better indoor coverage and spatial reuse gains in the 4G networks. On the one hand, users enjoy high-quality links; on the...
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Femtocells have been considered as a promising technology to provide better indoor coverage and spatial reuse gains. However, the co-channel deployment of macrocells and femtocells is still facing challenges a...
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In two-tier femtocell networks, femtocells cause serious cross-tier interference and consume large amounts of energy for its large-scale deployment. In this chapter, we investigate the power control problem fo...
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In this book, we investigate resource allocation and interference management in femtocell networks. A subchannel allocation algorithm based on the ant colony optimization is proposed in dense deployed femtocel...