Ilhak Ban, Se-Jin Kim, Journal of Internet Computing and Services, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 9-15, Dec. 2021
10.7472/jksii.2021.22.6.9, Full Text:  HTML
Keywords: Heterogeneous Network, Small-cell, Cooperative multi-point communication, interference management

Abstract

In ultra-dense heterogeneous networks, the amount of interference from small-cell base stations(SBS) to macro-cell user equipments (MUEs) increases significantly as the number of SBSs increases and it causes the MUEs to decrease the signal-to-interference and noise ratio(SINR) and system capacity. In this paper, we propose a small-cell based cooperative multi-point(CoMP) communication scheme that can guarantee the performance of MUEs even when the number of SBSs increases. In the proposed scheme, MUEs first find SBSs that give signal strength equal to or greater than a given SINR threshold and then they are served by different numbers of the selected SBSs using CoMP to improve the performance of MUEs. Simulation results show that the proposed small-cell based CoMP scheme outperforms other interference management or CoMP schemes in terms of the SINR and system capacity of MUEs.

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