Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2016, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (3): 275-285.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2016.03.004

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Power-Efficient Clustering-Based Spectrum Allocation in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks

XIANG Wei, ZHANG Jian-feng, XIE Wei, MA Wen-feng   

  1. College of Communications Engineering, PLA University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210007, China
  • Received:2015-08-12 Revised:2016-01-25 Online:2016-05-30 Published:2016-05-30

Abstract:

To solve the interference and power consumption problems between the macrocell base stations (MBSs) and the femto-cell base stations (FBSs), and that among FBSs, the paper proposes a power-efficient clustering-based spectrum allocation strategy (CSAS). According to outage probability of femto-cell users (FUEs), the maximum number of femtocell base stations contained in a cluster is derived. Under the restriction of the cluster capacity and OP, SIR of FUEs and minimum interference distance between FBSs in a cluster is further derived to strictly guarantee each FUE's SINR. A clustering algorithm and a spectrum allocation algorithm are proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed strategy improves power efficiency of the network and spectral efficiency of the femto-cell network.

Key words: cross-tier interference, co-tier interference, power consumption, spectrum allocation, heterogeneous cellular networks, clustering

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