Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 13, Issue 9, Pages 4959-4973Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2014.2340860
Keywords
Base station cooperation; non-coherent joint transmission; interference; stochastic geometry
Funding
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- German Research Foundation (DFG) within the Priority Program 1397 COIN [JO258/21-1]
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This paper presents a tractable model for analyzing noncoherent joint-transmission base station (BS) cooperation, taking into account the irregular BS deployment typically encountered in practice. In addition to cellular-network specific aspects, such as BS density, channel fading, average path loss, and interference, the model also captures relevant cooperation mechanisms, including user-centric BS clustering and channel-dependent cooperation activation. The locations of all BSs are modeled by a Poisson point process. Using tools from stochastic geometry, the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) distribution with cooperation is precisely characterized in a generality-preserving form. The result is then applied to practical design problems of recent interest. We find that increasing the network-wide BS density improves the SINR, while the gains increase with the path loss exponent. For pilot-based channel estimation, the average spectral efficiency saturates at cluster sizes of around seven BSs for typical values, irrespective of backhaul quality. Finally, it is shown that intra-cluster frequency reuse is favorable in moderately loaded cells with generous cooperation activation, while intra-cluster coordinated scheduling may be better in lightly loaded cells with conservative cooperation activation.
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