Minimising cell transmit power: towards self-organized resource allocation in OFDMA femtocells

  • Authors:

  • David López-Pérez;Xiaoli Chu;Athanasios V. Vasilakos;Holger Claussen

  • Affiliations:

  • King's College London, London, United Kingdom;King's College London, London, United Kingdom;National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece;Alcatel-Lucent Bell-Labs, Dublin, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

With the introduction of femtocells, cellular networks are moving from the conventional centralised architecture to a distributed one, where each network cell should make its own radio resource management decisions, while providing inter-cell interference mitigation. However, realising this distributed cellular network architecture is not a trivial task. In this paper, we first introduce a simple self-organisation rule under which a distributed cellular network is able to converge into an efficient resource allocation pattern, then propose a novel resource allocation model taking realistic resource allocation constraints into account, and finally evaluate the performance of the proposed self-organisation rule and resource allocation model using system-level simulations.