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Interference management techniques are critical to the performance of heterogeneous cellular networks, which will have dense and overlapping coverage areas, and experience high levels of interference. Fractional frequency reuse (FFR) is an…
Cellular networks are constantly lagging in terms of the bandwidth needed to support the growing high data rate demands. The system needs to efficiently allocate its frequency spectrum such that the spectrum utilization can be maximized…
Wireless networks employing small cells like femtocells are considered to be the choice of network deployment for 4G or advanced networks. This hierarchical deployment of cells introduces the necessity of effective frequency planning for…
In a Poisson Point Process (PPP) network model, in which the locations of Base Stations (BSs) are randomly distributed according to a Spatial Poisson Process, has been recently used as a tractable stochastic model to analyse the performance…
Fractional frequency reuse (FFR) is an inter-cell interference coordination scheme that is being actively researched for emerging wireless cellular networks. In this work, we consider hexagonal tessellation based planned FFR deployments,…
Fractional frequency reuse (FFR) is an interference management technique well-suited to OFDMA-based cellular networks wherein the cells are partitioned into spatial regions with different frequency reuse factors. To date, FFR techniques…
Mitigating intercell interference by employing fractional frequency reuse algorithms is one of the important approaches to improving user performance in 5G and Beyond 5G cellular network systems, which typically have a high density of Base…
In this paper, we study the impact of frequency-selectivity on the gap between the required per-user transmit power in the residual CFO scenario (i.e. after CFO estimation/compensation at the base-station (BS) from [6]) and that in the…
In this paper, a dynamic channel assigning along with dynamic cell sectoring model has been proposed that focuses on the Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) not only for interference mitigation but also for enhancement of overall system…
Femtocellular networks will co-exist with macrocellular networks, mitigation of the interference between these two network types is a key challenge for successful integration of these two technologies. In particular, there are several…
In a cell-free (CF) massive MIMO architecture a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously and jointly serves a much smaller number of mobile stations (MSs); a variant of the cell-free technique is the user-centric…
In this paper, spectrum-sharing technology is integrated into cellular systems to improve spectrum efficiency. Macrocell users are primary users (PUs) while those within local cells, e.g., femtocell users, or desiring cost-effective…
Recently, the so-called cell-free (CF) Massive MIMO architecture has been introduced, wherein a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously and jointly serve a much smaller number of mobile stations (MSs). The paper…
This paper is concerned with the proportional fairness (PF) of the spectral efficiency (SE) maximization of uplinks in a cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system in which a large number of single-antenna access…
We analyze the coverage probability of multi-user uplink cellular networks with fractional power control. We use a stochastic geometry approach where the mobile users are distributed as a Poisson Point Process (PPP), whereas the serving…
In this article, we focus on inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) techniques in heterogeneous network (Het-Net) deployments, whereby macro- and picocells autonomously optimize their downlink transmissions, with loose coordination. We…
This paper considers the performance analysis of constructive interference (CI) precoding technique in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems with a finite constellation phase-shift keying (PSK) input alphabet. Firstly,…
This paper proposes a coverage-oriented femtocell network deployment scheme, in which the femtocell base stations (BSs) can decide whether to be active or inactive depending on their distances from the macrocell BSs. Specifically, as the…
Managing interference in a network of macrocells underlaid with femtocells presents an important, yet challenging problem. A majority of spatial (frequency/time) reuse based approaches partition the users based on coloring the interference…
To improve signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) and make better use of file diversity provided by random caching, we consider two types of linear receivers, i.e., maximal ratio combining (MRC) receiver and partial zero forcing (PZF) receiver,…