Should one always connect to the base station with the strongest signal?

  • Authors:
  • Amin Jafarian;Uri Erez;Sriram Vishwanath

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Texas, Austin;Tel Aviv University;University of Texas, Austin

  • Venue:
  • Asilomar'09 Proceedings of the 43rd Asilomar conference on Signals, systems and computers
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This work considers a network with K transmitters and receivers, where the transmit-receive association is not predetermined. It is thus an interference network where the pairing between transmitters and receivers can be optimized to improve performance. This model is designed to represent a cellular system where each transmitter (mobile) is attempting to determine the best receiver (base-station) to connect to so as to maximize throughput. It is shown that in the two transmit-receive case, it is always better for a user to communicate with the "stronger" base station, for a network with K 2 transmitters and receivers, there exists a range of channel realizations for which connecting mobiles with a "weaker" base station results in a higher network throughput than connecting to the base-station with the "stronger" signal.