Optimal Power Masking in Soft Frequency Reuse based OFDMA Networks

Conference: European Wireless 2009 - 15th European Wireless Conference
05/17/2009 - 05/20/2009 at Aalborg, Denmark

Proceedings: European Wireless 2009

Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Bohge, Mathias; Wolisz, Adam (Technische Universität Berlin, TKN Group, Einsteinufer 25, 10587 Berlin, Germany)
Gross, James (RWTH Aachen University, UMIC Research Centre, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Str. 15, 52074 Aachen, Germany)
Wolisz, Adam (University of California, Berkeley, BWRC, 2108 Allston Way, Suite 200, Berkeley, CA 94704-1302, USA)

Abstract:
Soft frequency reuse is a strong tool for co-channel interference mitigation in cellular OFDMA/LTE networks. The performance of such networks significantly depends on the configuration of the power masks that implement the soft frequency reuse patterns. In this paper, we investigate the performance of different power mask configurations against the optimal case, in which a central entity optimally distributes power and resource blocks among the users of the network. It is shown that large differences exist between the performance of different mask types and the optimal case in both, the overall cell throughput, as well as the cell-edge user performance.