This paper examines the efficiency of spatial and frequency dimensions in
serving multiple users in the downlink of a small cell wireless network with
randomly deployed access points. For this purpose, the stochastic geometry
framework is incorporated, taking into account the user distribution within
each cell and the effect of sharing the available system resources to multiple
users. An analysis of performance in terms of signal-to-interference-ratio and
achieved user rate is provided that holds under the class of non-cooperative
multiple access schemes. In order to obtain concrete results, two simple
instances of multiple access schemes are considered. It is shown that
performance depends critically on both the availability of frequency and/or
spatial dimensions as well as the way they are employed. In particular,
increasing the number of available frequency dimensions alone is beneficial for
users experiencing large interference, whereas increasing spatial dimensions
without employing frequency dimensions degrades performance. However, best
performance is achieved when both dimensions are combined in serving the users.Comment: IEEE WCNC '1