REFIM: A Practical Interference Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks

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Due to the increasing demand of capacity in wireless cellular networks, the small cells such as pico and femto cells are becoming more popular to enjoy a spatial reuse gain, and thus cells with different sizes are expected to coexist in a complex manner. In such a heterogeneous environment, the role of interference management (IM) becomes of more importance, but technical challenges also increase, since the number of cell-edge users, suffering from severe interference from the neighboring cells, will naturally grow. In order to overcome low performance and/or high complexity of existing static and other dynamic IM algorithms, we propose a novel low-complex and fully distributed IM scheme, called REFIM (REFerence based Interference Management), in the downlink of heterogeneous multi-cell networks. We first formulate a general optimization problem that turns out to require intractable computation complexity for global optimality. To have a practical solution with low computational and signaling overhead, which is crucial for low-cost small-cell solutions, e.g., femto cells, in REFIM, we decompose it into per-BS (base station) problems based on the notion of reference user and reduce feedback overhead over backhauls both temporally and spatially. We evaluate REFIM through extensive simulations under various configurations, including the scenarios from a real deployment of BSs. We show that, compared to the schemes without IM, REFIM can yield more than 40% throughput improvement of cell-edge users while increasing the overall performance by 10 similar to 107%. This is equal to about 95% performance of the existing centralized IM algorithm (MC-IIWF) that is known to be near-optimal but hard to implement in practice due to prohibitive complexity. We also present that as long as interference is managed well, the spectrum sharing policy can outperform the best spectrum splitting policy where the number of subchannels is optimally divided between macro and femto cells.
Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Issue Date
2011-06
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Keywords

DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LINES; FEMTOCELL NETWORKS; POWER-CONTROL; ALLOCATION; ALGORITHMS; AVOIDANCE

Citation

IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, v.29, no.6, pp.1260 - 1272

ISSN
0733-8716
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/98340
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