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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2013.17.12.2806

Downlink Performance Analysis for Cell Range Expansion Bias in Heterogeneous Mobile Communication Networks  

Ban, Tae-Won (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Gyeongsang National University)
Jung, Bang Chul (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Gyeongsang National University)
Jo, Jung-Yeon (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Gyeongsang National University)
Sung, Kil-Young (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Gyeongsang National University)
Abstract
New technologies such as multi-antenna and small cell were proposed as key technology for the next generation mobile system to cope with the explosively increasing mobile data traffic. In particular, heterogeneous mobile communication network which can improve spatial reuse factor by exploiting macro and small cells simultaneously is attracting attention. However, the heterogeneous network has a problem that the utilization of small cells becomes low because the transmit power of macro base stations is much higher than that of small base stations and then the probability that mobile stations are attached to the macro base stations becomes high. This problem is dominant in uplink. The concept of cell range expansion bias to mitigate the problem was proposed by 3GPP and the corresponding standardization is in progress. In this paper, we analyze the downlink performance of the heterogeneous mobile communication network based on a system level simulator with the cell range expansion bias in terms of average cell spectral efficiency.
Keywords
Heterogeneous networks; Small cells; Cell Range Expansion;
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