WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
Self-deployment, self-configuration: critical future paradigms for wireless access networks
WAC'04 Proceedings of the First international IFIP conference on Autonomic Communication
Downlink Radio Resource Allocation for Multi-Cell OFDMA System
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Communications Magazine
WiMAX femtocells: a perspective on network architecture, capacity, and coverage
IEEE Communications Magazine
Distributed graph coloring for self-organization in LTE networks
Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Special issue on LTE/LTE-advanced cellular communication networks
Review: A survey on interference management techniques in femtocell self-organizing networks
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
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Low-power base stations such as femtocells are one of the candidates for high-data-rate provisioning in local areas, such as residences, apartment complexes, business offices, and outdoor hotspot scenarios. Unfortunately, the benefits are not without new challenges in terms of interference management and efficient system operation. Due to the expected large number of user-deployed cells, centralized network planning becomes impractical, and new scalable alternatives must be sought. In this article we propose a fully distributed and scalable solution to the interference management problem in local areas, basing our study case on LTE-Advanced. We present extensive network simulation results to demonstrate that a simple and robust interference management scheme, called autonomous component carrier selection, allows each cell to select the most attractive frequency configuration; improving the experience of all users and not just the few best ones, while over-all cell capacity is not compromised.