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Small Cell Planning: Resource Management and Interference Mitigation Mechanisms in LTE HetNets

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In an attempt to address the huge data demand of indoor mobile users and poor signal strength from outdoor base stations to indoor environments, opertaors have started deploying variety of small cells likes Femtos, picos and micro cells. In this work, we used Femtos as small cells. Femto cells are low-cost, low-power consuming cellular base stations which operate only in licensed spectrum and are designed for both outdoor and indoor communication. Although small cells can be used for enhancing network capacity and coverage, arbitrary deployment of large number of small cells can lead to increase in operators expenditure and may create severe interference issues for cell edge users. In this paper, we look into optimal placement of small cell solutions to improve data rates of users in LTE HetNets using Femtos. Besides, these solutions address the main concerns of interference and resource management by proposing mechanisms for optimal placement of Femtos (OptFP, MinNF), dynamic power control and bandwidth allocation in Femtos (SOPC) and dynamic offloading. We provide a comparison of placement solutions and the applicability of each proposal keeping the operators’ revenue in mind.

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  1. Department of CSE, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Vanlin Sathya

  2. Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Shrestha Ghosh

  3. TCS R & D, Pune, India

    Arun Ramamurthy

  4. Department of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, India

    Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma

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Sathya, V., Ghosh, S., Ramamurthy, A. et al. Small Cell Planning: Resource Management and Interference Mitigation Mechanisms in LTE HetNets. Wireless Pers Commun 115, 335–361 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-020-07574-x

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