Optimality Properties, Distributed Strategies, and Measurement-Based Evaluation of Coordinated Multicell OFDMA Transmission
2011 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, ISSN 1053-587X, E-ISSN 1941-0476, Vol. 59, no 12, p. 6086-6101Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The throughput of multicell systems is inherently limited by interference andthe available communication resources. Coordinated resource allocation is the key to efficient performance, but the demand on backhaul signaling andcomputational resources grows rapidly with number of cells, terminals, andsubcarriers. To handle this, we propose a novel multicell framework with dynamic cooperation clusters where each terminal is jointly served by a small set of base stations. Each base station coordinates interference to neighboring terminals only, thus limiting backhaul signalling and making the framework scalable. This framework can describe anything from interference channels to ideal joint multicell transmission. The resource allocation (i.e., precoding and scheduling) is formulated as an optimization problem (P1) with performance described by arbitrary monotonic functions of the signal-to-interference-and-noise ratios (SINRs) and arbitrary linear power constraints. Although (P1) is nonconvex and difficult to solve optimally, we are able to prove: 1) optimalityof single-stream beamforming; 2) conditions for full power usage; and 3) a precoding parametrization based on a few parameters between zero and one. These optimality properties are used to propose low-complexity strategies: both a centralized scheme and a distributed version that only requires local channel knowledge and processing. We evaluate the performance on measuredmulticell channels and observe that the proposed strategies achieve close-to-optimal performance among centralized and distributed solutions, respectively. In addition, we show that multicell interference coordination can give substantial improvements in sum performance, but that joint transmission is very sensitive to synchronization errors and that some terminals can experience performance degradations.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2011. Vol. 59, no 12, p. 6086-6101
Keywords [en]
Channel measurements, dynamic cooperation clusters, low-complexity distributed strategies, multicell multiantenna system, optimality properties, resource allocation
National Category
Telecommunications
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-48985DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2011.2165706ISI: 000297115500034Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-81455148140OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-48985DiVA, id: diva2:459102
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