Neighbor-friendly autonomous power control in wireless heterogeneous networks

Torrea-Duran, Rodolfo;Tsiaflakis, Paschalis;Vandendorpe, Luc;Moonen, Marc
(2014) Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking — Vol. 2014, n° 1 (2014)

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  • Torrea-Duran, Rodolfo
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  • Tsiaflakis, Paschalis
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  • Moonen, Marc
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Abstract
The widespread deployment of base stations constitutes a promising solution to cope with the ever-increasing wireless data rate demands. However, it also increases the interference levels, especially at the cell-edge. Most interference management techniques assume coordination between base stations, which involves undesired overhead and delays. To solve this problem, we propose a neighbor-friendly autonomous algorithm for power control in wireless heterogeneous networks that protects victim users from neighboring cells through a penalty factor in the power allocation level. We refer to this algorithm as neighbor-friendly iterative waterfilling (NF-IWF). In addition, we propose a low-complexity closed-form version that fixes the penalty factor by assuming a linear approximation of the victim user data rate. In high interference conditions, it can achieve a victim user data rate increase by a factor of 3.5 compared to IWF, 15 compared to soft frequency reuse (SFR), and 60 compared to equal power allocation (EPA) with a marginal decrease of the primary user data rate.
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Torrea-Duran, R., Tsiaflakis, P., Vandendorpe, L., & Moonen, M. (2014). Neighbor-friendly autonomous power control in wireless heterogeneous networks. Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2014(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-1499-2014-175 (Original work published 2014)