Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 10, Issue 12, Pages 4294-4305Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2011.100611.110181
Keywords
Fractional frequency reuse (FFR); soft frequency reuse (SFR); cellular networks; inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) techniques
Funding
- Division of Computing and Communication Foundations
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr [1016649] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Fractional frequency reuse (FFR) is an interference management technique well-suited to OFDMA-based cellular networks wherein the bandwidth of the cells is partitioned into regions with different frequency reuse factors. To date, FFR techniques have been typically been evaluated through system-level simulations using a hexagonal grid for the base station locations. This paper instead focuses on analytically evaluating the two main types of FFR deployments - Strict FFR and Soft Frequency Reuse (SFR) - using a Poisson point process to model the base station locations. The results are compared with the standard grid model and an actual urban deployment. Under reasonable special cases for modern cellular networks, our results reduce to simple closed-form expressions, which provide insight into system design guidelines and the relative merits of Strict FFR, SFR, universal reuse, and fixed frequency reuse. Finally, a SINR-proportional resource allocation strategy is proposed based on the analytical expressions and we observe that FFR provides an increase in the sum-rate as well as the well-known benefit of improved coverage for cell-edge users.
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