Is the low-complexity mobile-relay-aided
FFR-DAS capable of outperforming the high-complexity CoMP?
Is the low-complexity mobile-relay-aided
FFR-DAS capable of outperforming the high-complexity CoMP?
Coordinated multi-point transmission/reception aided collocated antenna system (CoMP-CAS) and mobile relay assisted fractional frequency reuse distributed antenna system (MR-FFR-DAS) constitute a pair of virtual-MIMO based technical options for achieving high spectral efficiency in interference-limited cellular networks. In practice both techniques have their respective pros and cons, which are studied in this paper by evaluating the achievable cell-edge performance on the uplink of multicell systems. We show that assuming the same antenna configuration in both networks, the maximum available cooperative spatial diversity inherent in the MR-FFR-DAS is lower than that of the CoMP-CAS. However, when the cell-edge MSs have a low transmission power, the lower-complexity MR-FFR-DAS relying on the simple single-cell processing may outperform the CoMP-CAS by using the proposed soft-combining based probabilistic data association (SC-PDA) receiver, despite the fact that the latter scheme is more complex and incurs a higher cooperation overhead. Furthermore, the benefits of the SC-PDA receiver may be enhanced by properly selecting the MRs' positions. Additionally, we show that the performance of the cell-edge MSs roaming near the angular direction halfway between two adjacent RAs (i.e. the "worst-case direction") of the MR-FFR-DAS may be more significantly improved than that of the cell-edge MSs of other directions by using multiuser power control, which also improves the fairness amongst cell-edge MSs. Our simulation results show that given a moderate MS transmit power, the proposed MR-FFR-DAS architecture employing the SC-PDA receiver is capable of achieving significantly better bit-error rate (BER) and effective throughput across the entire cell-edge area, including even the ”worst-case direction” and the cell-edge boundary, than the CoMP-CAS architecture.
Base station cooperation, coordinated multipoint
(CoMP), fractional frequency reuse, distributed antenna
systems (DAS), multicell uplink, mobile relay.
2154-2169
Yang, Shaoshi
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Xu, Xinyi
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Alanis, Dimitrios
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Ng, Soon Xin
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Hanzo, Lajos
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April 2016
Yang, Shaoshi
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Xu, Xinyi
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Alanis, Dimitrios
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Ng, Soon Xin
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Hanzo, Lajos
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Yang, Shaoshi, Xu, Xinyi, Alanis, Dimitrios, Ng, Soon Xin and Hanzo, Lajos
(2016)
Is the low-complexity mobile-relay-aided
FFR-DAS capable of outperforming the high-complexity CoMP?
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 65 (4), .
(doi:10.1109/TVT.2015.2416333).
Abstract
Coordinated multi-point transmission/reception aided collocated antenna system (CoMP-CAS) and mobile relay assisted fractional frequency reuse distributed antenna system (MR-FFR-DAS) constitute a pair of virtual-MIMO based technical options for achieving high spectral efficiency in interference-limited cellular networks. In practice both techniques have their respective pros and cons, which are studied in this paper by evaluating the achievable cell-edge performance on the uplink of multicell systems. We show that assuming the same antenna configuration in both networks, the maximum available cooperative spatial diversity inherent in the MR-FFR-DAS is lower than that of the CoMP-CAS. However, when the cell-edge MSs have a low transmission power, the lower-complexity MR-FFR-DAS relying on the simple single-cell processing may outperform the CoMP-CAS by using the proposed soft-combining based probabilistic data association (SC-PDA) receiver, despite the fact that the latter scheme is more complex and incurs a higher cooperation overhead. Furthermore, the benefits of the SC-PDA receiver may be enhanced by properly selecting the MRs' positions. Additionally, we show that the performance of the cell-edge MSs roaming near the angular direction halfway between two adjacent RAs (i.e. the "worst-case direction") of the MR-FFR-DAS may be more significantly improved than that of the cell-edge MSs of other directions by using multiuser power control, which also improves the fairness amongst cell-edge MSs. Our simulation results show that given a moderate MS transmit power, the proposed MR-FFR-DAS architecture employing the SC-PDA receiver is capable of achieving significantly better bit-error rate (BER) and effective throughput across the entire cell-edge area, including even the ”worst-case direction” and the cell-edge boundary, than the CoMP-CAS architecture.
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Published date: April 2016
Keywords:
Base station cooperation, coordinated multipoint
(CoMP), fractional frequency reuse, distributed antenna
systems (DAS), multicell uplink, mobile relay.
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Southampton Wireless Group
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/343255
ISSN: 0018-9545
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Soon Xin Ng
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