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Optimality Properties, Distributed Strategies, and Measurement-Based Evaluation of Coordinated Multicell OFDMA Transmission
The throughput of multicell systems is inherently limited by interference and
the available communication resources. Coordinated resource allocation is the
key to efficient performance, but the demand on backhaul signaling and
computational resources grows rapidly with number of cells, terminals, and
subcarriers. 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 non-convex and difficult to solve
optimally, we are able to prove: 1) Optimality of 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 measured multicell 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.Comment: Published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 15 pages, 7
figures. This version corrects typos related to Eq. (4) and Eq. (28
Pareto Characterization of the Multicell MIMO Performance Region With Simple Receivers
We study the performance region of a general multicell downlink scenario with
multiantenna transmitters, hardware impairments, and low-complexity receivers
that treat interference as noise. The Pareto boundary of this region describes
all efficient resource allocations, but is generally hard to compute. We
propose a novel explicit characterization that gives Pareto optimal transmit
strategies using a set of positive parameters---fewer than in prior work. We
also propose an implicit characterization that requires even fewer parameters
and guarantees to find the Pareto boundary for every choice of parameters, but
at the expense of solving quasi-convex optimization problems. The merits of the
two characterizations are illustrated for interference channels and ideal
network multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO).Comment: Published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 6 pages, 6
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