Joint Cell Association and User Scheduling in Carrier Aggregated Heterogeneous Networks
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Related Work and Motivation
1.2. Contribution and Organization
2. Problem Statement
2.1. System Overview
2.2. Problem Formulation
3. Joint Cell Association Scheme for Multi-Flow Carrier Aggregation
3.1. Multi-Flow Problem Reformulation
3.2. Iterative Dual Analysis Based Joint Cell Association
3.3. Summary
Algorithm 1 Joint Cell Association Scheme for Multi-Flow CA. |
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4. Numerical Analysis
4.1. Simulation Configuration
4.2. Numerical Results
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Macrocell Transmit Power | 46 dBm |
Femtocell Transmit Power | 20 dBm |
Macrocell coverage Radius | 500 m |
Femtocell coverage Radius | 50 m |
AWGN | −174 dBm/Hz |
Total Users Number | M = 200 |
Carrier Frequency of | 2.5 GHz |
Carrier Frequency of | 800 MHz |
Bandwidth of | 10 MHz |
Bandwidth of | 10 MHz |
Wavelength of | 0.125 m |
Wavelength of | 0.375 m |
Path Loss Exponent of Macrocell | 4 |
Path Loss Exponent of Femtocell | 3 |
Reference distance in Macrocell | 10 m |
Reference distance in Femtocell | 1 m |
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Zhang, J.; Meng, L.; Ji, H. Joint Cell Association and User Scheduling in Carrier Aggregated Heterogeneous Networks. Information 2018, 9, 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/info9010009
Zhang J, Meng L, Ji H. Joint Cell Association and User Scheduling in Carrier Aggregated Heterogeneous Networks. Information. 2018; 9(1):9. https://doi.org/10.3390/info9010009
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhang, Jia, Lili Meng, and Hui Ji. 2018. "Joint Cell Association and User Scheduling in Carrier Aggregated Heterogeneous Networks" Information 9, no. 1: 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/info9010009