Dynamic Cell Range Expansion-based interference coordination scheme in next generation wireless networks

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 98-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaolong Ning ◽  
Qingyang Song ◽  
Lei Guo ◽  
Mengfan Dai ◽  
Minghong Yue
2013 ◽  
Vol 397-400 ◽  
pp. 1954-1957
Author(s):  
Meng Fan Dai ◽  
Qing Yang Song ◽  
Zhao Long Ning

Deploying Pico cell Base Station (PBS) throughout a Macro cell layout is a promising solution to enhance system capacity and users throughput. However, the strong received power from Macro cell Base Station (MBS) makes the Pico cell areas narrow and limits cell splitting gain. Range Expansion (RE) is desirable to balance the network load between MBS and PBS by expanding the coverage, which subsequently increases cell splitting gains. However, more interference may be introduced if the bias value of RE is not set properly. In this paper, we propose a Dynamic Cell Range Expansion (DCRE) strategy that the bias value of RE is set dynamically according to the change of network environment. The proposed scheme aims to fulfill the resources utilization by RE scheme, and meanwhile improve the users performance of cell edge through cell load balancing method. Simulation results show that DCRE scheme can improve the network performance of cell edge, and increase the cell capacity and users throughput compared with the existing methods.


2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 943-952
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Bakuza ◽  
Hashimu U. Iddi ◽  
Abdi T. Abdalla

The traditional scheme for load balancing in a homogeneous Long Term Evolution (LTE) Network where User Equipment (UEs) associate to a node with the strongest received signal strength is not practical for LTE Heterogeneous Network (LTE HetNet) due to power disparity between the nodes. Therefore, dynamic Cell Range Expansion (CRE) based load-balancing schemes were employed by several scholars to address the challenges in the LTE HetNet. However, the fairness index in achieving the desired average user throughput and UE offloading effect is relatively low. In this work, an efficient load-balancing algorithm for LTE HetNet based on dynamic Cell Range Expansion (CRE) was developed to improve the fairness of the network for the desired throughput and UE offloading effect. The simulation results achieve a throughput gain improvement of up to 11%, while the fairness index improves by 6% compared to the existing algorithm. Further, the UEs offloading effect shows a significant improvement of 3% relative to the existing algorithm. Keywords: Fairness Index; Cell Range Expansion; Load Balancing; LTE Heterogeneous Network; Throughput


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