Fairness-aware joint routing and scheduling in OFDMA-based cellular fixed relay networks
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Performance of cellular networks with relays and centralized scheduling
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Resource Allocation for OFDMA Relay Networks With Fairness Constraints
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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The provision of very high data rates in a ubiquitous and fair manner throughout the service area is a great challenge for 4G and beyond-4G wireless networks. Towards that end, the deployment of fixed relays by the operators has become an accepted radio access network concept in various standardization activities including LTE-A and 802.16m. In this paper, we present a fair resource allocation scheme that can significantly reduce the co-channel interference and improve spectrum utilization in OFDMA-based multi-cellular networks enhanced by fixed relays. The major goal is to obtain an effective throughput-fairness trade-off through the combination of dynamic resource allocation, in-cell routing, traffic diversity, and history of users' past service. The proposed scheme achieves substantial fairness, throughput, and latency improvements in comparison to the reference schemes as well as to another scheme proposed, earlier by the authors. Numerical results indicate that the proposed scheme provides an almost ubiquitous high-data-rate service to users, irrespective of their locations (including cell-edge users), with a minimal sacrifice in the overall network throughput.