Frequency reuse in mobile WiMAX and LTE networks with sectored cells

Authors:
Hikmet Sari;Serdar Sezginer;Emmanuelle Vivier
Affiliations:
Supélec, Plateau de Moulon, Gifsur Yvette, France and Sequans Communications, Bat. CitiCenter, Paris La Défense, France;Sequans Communications, Bat. CitiCenter, Paris La Défense, France;ISEP, Paris, France
Venue:
MWS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Mobile WiMAX
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Frequency reuse is an important topic in wireless communications systems. In this paper, we address the issue of frequency reuse in sectored cells which are subject to interference in the overlap regions of adjacent sectors. We propose to increase the number of sectors from 3 to 4 using conventional base station sector antennas with beam-width exceeding 120°, which purposely creates large overlap regions between adjacent sectors. Rather than treating the signals of adjacent sectors as interference, we investigate sector cooperation for communication with users located in the overlap regions. Different scenarios are considered for user locations, and simulation results are given which illustrate the performance of the proposed schemes.