A Framework for Optimizing the Uplink Performance of Distributed Antenna Systems under a Constrained Backhaul
- 1 June 2007
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- No. 15503607,p. 975-979
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icc.2007.165
Abstract
It has recently been shown that multi-cell cooperations in cellular networks, enabling distributed antenna systems and joint transmission or joint detection across cell boundaries, can significantly increase capacity, especially that of users at cell borders. Such concepts, typically implicitly assuming unlimited information exchange between base stations, can also be used to increase the network fairness. In practical implementations, however, the large amounts of received signals that need to be quantized and transmitted via an additional backhaul between the involved cells to central processing points, will be a non-negligible issue. In this paper, we thus introduce an analytical framework to observe the uplink performance of cellular networks in which joint detection is only applied to a subset of selected users, aiming at achieving best possible capacity and fairness improvements under a strongly constrained backhaul between sites. This reveals a multi-dimensional optimization problem, where we propose a simple, heuristic algorithm that strongly narrows down and serializes the problem while still yielding a significant performance improvement.Keywords
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