• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.367-373
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• 2022

Femtocells have recently been recognized for their potential to boost network capacity, improve end-user QoS and throughput, and do so at a cheap cost and with ease of implementation. The use of femtocells in indoor environments, such as residential buildings with neighboring homes, is becoming more popular. Femtocells are subject to interference from other femtocells, and the unwanted effects of interference are amplified when femtocells are deployed in close proximity to one another. As a consequence, the network's overall performance is degraded to a significant degree. One of the strategies that is thought to be effective in reducing the impact of interference is altering the transmission power of the femtocells. In this paper, a dynamic downlink transmission power of femtocells is suggested. In accordance with the observed cost function unit, each femtocell automatically changes its transmission power. If a femtocell causes too much interference for its neighbors, its transmission power level will be limited by that interference's rate. A simulation experiment is conducted to validate the effectiveness of the suggested system when compared with other schemes. When compared to previous schemes, which are addressed in this study, the numerical results show that the proposed strategy could provide more capacity while also ideally mitigating the influence of interference among co-channel deployed femtocells.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권9호
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• pp.2153-2169
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• 2012

Femtocells provide high quality indoor communications with low transmit power. However, when femtocells are applied in cellular systems, a co-channel interference problem between macrocells and femtocells occurs because femtocells use the same spectrum as do the macrocells. To solve the co-channel interference problem, a previous study suggested a resource allocation scheme in LTE cellular systems using FFR. However, this conventional resource allocation scheme still has interference problems between macrocells and femtocells near the boundary of the sub-areas. In this paper, we define an optimization problem for resource allocation to femtocells and propose a femtocell resource allocation scheme to solve the optimization problem and the interference problems of the conventional scheme. The evaluation of the proposed scheme is conducted by System Level Simulation while varying the simulation environments. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme is superior to the conventional scheme and that it improves the overall performance of cellular systems.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제3권5호
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• pp.275-284
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• 2014

This paper considers two-tier networks consisting of macrocells and femtocells operating in the same spectrum. This paper proposes a femtocell spectrum reuse scheme that determines the shared spectrum and transmit power for the femtocells to mitigate the effects of cross-tier interference between the macrocells and femtocells. The proposed scheme provides macrocell throughput that is unaffected by the increasing number of femtocells per cell site and improves the femtocell signal quality at the same time by limiting the cross-tier interference. This study analyzed the per-tier signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) and outage probability of the proposed scheme to investigate the macrocell and femtocell performance. The total throughput of the proposed scheme was analyzed based on the outage probabilities. The analysis and numerical results proved that high femtocell throughput can be achieved using only a small fraction of the spectrum while protecting the macrocell throughput. As a result, an improved total throughput was achieved enforcing higher spatial reuse.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.329-339
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• 2022

Small cells, particularly femtocells, are regarded a promising solution for limited resources required to handle the increasing data demand. They usually boost wireless network capacity. While widespread usage of femtocells increases network gain, it also raises several challenges. Interference is one of such concerns. Interference management is also seen as a main obstacle in the adoption of two-tier networks. For example, placing femtocells in a traditional macrocell's geographic area. Interference comes in two forms: cross-tier and co-tier. There have been previous studies conducted on the topic of interference management. This study investigates the principle of categorization of interference management systems. Many methods exist in the literature to reduce or eliminate the impacts of co-tier, cross-tier, or a combination of the two forms of interference. Following are some of the ways provided to manage interference: FFR, Cognitive Femtocell and Cooperative Resource Scheduling, Beamforming Strategy, Transmission Power Control, and Clustering/Graph-Based. Approaches, which were proposed to solve the interference problem, had been presented for each category in this work.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.1424-1441
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• 2014

Two-tier femtocell networks, consisting of a conventional cellular network underlaid with femtocell hotspots, play an important role in the indoor coverage and capacity of cellular networks. However, the cross- and co-tier interference will cause an unacceptable quality of service (QoS) for users with universal frequency reuse. In this paper, we propose a novel downlink interference mitigation strategy for spectrum-shared two-tier femtocell networks. The proposed solution is composed of three parts. The first is femtocells clustering, which maximizes the distance between femtocells using the same slot resource to mitigate co-tier interference. The second is to assign macrocell users (MUEs) to clusters by max-min criterion, by which each MUE can avoid using the same resource as the nearest femtocell. The third is a novel adaptive power control scheme with femtocells downlink transmit power adjusted adaptively based on the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) level of neighboring users. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can effectively increase the successful transmission ratio and ergodic capacity of femtocells, while guaranteeing QoS of the macrocell.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권5A호
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• pp.339-347
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• 2012

최근에 실내 커버리지 확장 및 광대역 데이터 서비스를 위한 가정용 기지국인 펨토셀에 대한 연구가 활발하다. 펨토셀이 배치될 때, 기존에 있던 네트워크 상황 속에서 다양한 기술적인 문제들을 발생 시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 OFDMA 시스템에서 펨토 - 매크로셀 간의 간섭 완화에 대하여 연구하였고, 동적인 하향링크 자원 관리 방법을 제안하였다. 펨토셀의 전송 파워를 매크로셀로부터 오는 신호의 세기에 기반을 두어서 선택하는 방법과 펨토셀 에게 할당 할 부반송파를 동적으로 관리하는 방식을 제안하였다. 이러한 방법으로 펨토셀과 매크로셀 사용자와의 간섭을 줄일 수 있다. 제안하는 방법은 수용율을 비롯한 여러 평가 지표로 성능을 검증하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권8C호
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• pp.667-679
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• 2010

이동통신 시스템의 커버리지를 확장하고 네트웍 용량을 늘리기 위한 방법으로 사무실이나 가정에 펨토셀(femtocell)을 설치하는 방안이 널리 연구되어 왔다. 시분할 다중화 방식을 사용하는 M-WiMAX (Mobile WiMAX) 펨토셀의 경우 상향링크와 하향링크 신호간의 간섭을 피하기 위해 인접한 기지국과 프레임(frame) 동기를 일치시켜야 한다. 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11 기반의 무선 백홀(backhaul)을 사용하는 펨토셀의 프레임 동기화를 위해 IEEE 802.11의 비콘(beacon) 신호를 이용하여 이동통신망의 동기 정보를 펨토셀로 전달하는 방안을 제안한다. 또한 제안된 기법으로 동기 정보를 전달할 때 발생하는 시간 오차를 줄이기 위해 기존 IEEE 802.11 송신기의 충돌 회피 기법을 일부 수정하고 IEEE 802.11 수신기에 최소 자승(least squares) 오차 관점에서 설계된 시간 동기 추정 기법을 적용한다. 제안된 방식을 적용한 모의 실험을 통해 펨토셀의 프레임 동기화 성능을 평가하고, 펨토셀에서 복원된 시간 동기 정보가 M-WiMAX 표준에 정의된 규격을 만족함을 보인다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.223-228
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• 2022

Femtocells are being incorporated into heterogeneous networks in order to increase the network capacity. However, intensive deployment of femtocells results in undesired interference, which lowers the system's performance. Controlling the femtocell transmission power is one of of the aspects that can be addressed in order to mitigate the negative effects of the interference. It may also be utilized to facilitate the auto-configuration of the network's conductance, if necessary. This paper proposes the use of an auto-configuration technique for transmission power. The suggested technique is based on the transmission power of macrocells and the coverage provided by femtocells. The simulation findings show that the network's capacity has increased, and the amount of interference has decreased.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.394-400
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• 2022

The radio resources available in a wireless network system are limited. Therefor, job of managing resources is not easy task. Because the resources are shared among the UEs that are connected, the process of assigning resources must be carefully controlled. The packet scheduler in an LTE network is in charge of allocating resources to the user equipment (UE). Femtocells networks are being considered as a promising solution for poor channel performance for mulitple environments. The implementation of femtocells into a macrocell (traditional base station) would boost the capacities of the cellular network. To increase femtocells network capacity, a reliable Packet Scheduler mechanism should be implemented. The Packet Scheduler technique is introduced in this paper to maximize capacity of the network while maintaining fairness among UEs. The proposed solution operates in a manner consistent with this principle. An analysis of the proposed scheme's performance is conducted using a computer simulation. The results reveal that it outperforms the well-known PF scheduler in terms of cell throughput and average throughput of UEs.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.292-298
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• 2022

Femtocell networks can be a potential method for increasing the capacity of LTE networks, especially in indoor areas. However, unplanned deployment of femtocells results in co-tier interference and cross-tier interference problems. The interference reduces the advantages of implementing femtocell networks to a certain extent. The notion of Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) is proposed in order to reduce the impact of interference on the system's performance. In this paper, a dynamic approach for efficiently partitioning the spectrum is suggested. The goal is to enhance the capacity of femtocells, which will improve the performance of the system. The suggested strategy allocates less resources to the macrocell portion of the network, which has a greater number of femtocells deployed to maximize the utilization of available resources for femtocell users. The spectrum division would be dynamic. The proposed strategy is evaluated through a simulation using MATLAB tool. In conclusion, the results showed that the proposed scheme has the potential to boost the system's capacity.