LANGUAGE
English
SOURCE
Globecom 2011
Published Date:2011-12-01
ABSTRACT
We consider multiple base station (BS) cooperative transmission in downlink cellular networks to improve the spectral efficiency and the system capacity. Grouping BSs into clusters is a practical solution to realize BSs cooperation and reduce system complexity. However, it still suffers from intercluster interference, especially for the cluster-edge users. In this paper, clustering and scheduling are jointly considered to deal with the problem. The clusters are formed dynamically from users’ point of view to minimize the inter-cluster interference, and are allowed to be overlapped. Accordingly, coordinated precoding scheme is designed to manage the intra-cluster interference. A greedy scheduling algorithm is proposed jointly with dynamic clustering. Simulations show that the proposed joint algorithm provides impressive average throughput gain over the non-joint ones, and the user fairness is improved significantly.
Copyright Notice