Joint Power Control, Channel Assignment and Cell Association in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks

10/21/2021

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by   Shahla Mohsenifard, et al.

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Heterogeneous network (HetNet) is a promising concept for increasing capacity and alleviating spectrum scarcity. In HetNets, however, channel assignment and transmit power control affect the distribution of users among base stations. We present a novel scheme to maximize the uplink sum rate in two-tier HetNets with one macrocell and several femtocells, where the transmit power of each user is bounded and at least one channel is assigned to each user. We divide the problem into two sub-problems: one for channel assignment and one for transmit power control and solve them by iteratively alternating between the two. Our scheme is convergent and yields a transmission rate above 6 bps/Hz for almost 50 When users are in cell boundaries, the average transmission rate for fractional frequency reuse is up to 20 reuse. This is due to reduced transmit power resulting in less interference.