Exploiting Interference Alignment in Multi-Cell Cooperative OFDMA Resource Allocation

Bin Da; Rui Zhang

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Exploiting Interference Alignment in Multi-Cell Cooperative OFDMA Resource Allocation

Bin Da, Rui Zhang

Information Theory · Submitted 16 Mar 2011

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The authors' main claim It is shown that this hybrid resource allocation scheme flexibly exploits the downlink IA gains for OFDMA-based cellular systems.

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This paper studies interference alignment (IA) based multi-cell cooperative resource allocation for the downlink OFDMA with universal frequency reuse. Unlike the traditional scheme that treats subcarriers as separate dimensions for resource allocation, the IA technique is utilized to enable frequency-domain precoding over parallel subcarriers. In this paper, the joint optimization of frequency-domain precoding via IA, subcarrier user selection and power allocation is investigated for a cooperative three-cell OFDMA system to maximize the downlink throughput. Numerical results for a simplified symmetric channel setup reveal that the IA-based scheme achieves notable throughput gains over the traditional scheme only when the inter-cell interference link has a comparable strength as the direct link, and the receiver SNR is sufficiently large. Motivated by this observation, a practical hybrid scheme is proposed for cellular systems with heterogenous channel conditions, where the total spectrum is divided into two subbands, over which the IAbased scheme and the traditional scheme are applied for resource allocation to users located in the cell-intersection region and cellnon- intersection region, respectively. It is shown that this hybrid resource allocation scheme flexibly exploits the downlink IA gains for OFDMA-based cellular systems.

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s4	Motivated by this observation, a practical hybrid scheme is proposed for cellular systems with heterogenous channel conditions, where the total spectrum is divided into two subbands, over which the IAbased scheme and the traditional scheme are applied for resource allocation to users located in the cell-intersection region and cellnon- intersection region, respectively.	contribution 0.55	0.82	0.17	asserted 0.92
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This paper studies interference alignment (IA) based multi-cell cooperative resource allocation for the downlink OFDMA with universal frequency reuse. Unlike the traditional scheme that treats subcarriers as separate dimensions for resource allocation, the IA technique is utilized to enable frequency-domain precoding over parallel subcarriers. In this paper, the joint optimization of frequency-domain precoding via IA, subcarrier user selection and power allocation is investigated for a cooperative three-cell OFDMA system to maximize the downlink throughput. Numerical results for a simplified symmetric channel setup reveal that the IA-based scheme achieves notable throughput gains over the traditional scheme only when the inter-cell interference link has a comparable strength as the direct link, and the receiver SNR is sufficiently large. Motivated by this observation, a practical hybrid scheme is proposed for cellular systems with heterogenous channel conditions, where the total spectrum is divided into two subbands, over which the IAbased scheme and the traditional scheme are applied for resource allocation to users located in the cell-intersection region and cellnon- intersection region, respectively. It is shown that this hybrid resource allocation scheme flexibly exploits the downlink IA gains for OFDMA-based cellular systems.

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Last, subgradient-based methods such as the ellipsoid method [ref] can be used to iteratively search for the optimal $λ$ in the dual problem to make the corresponding power allocation solutions of the problems in ([ref]) satisfy all the per-BS power constraints.

Cooperative Interference Control for Spectrum Sharing in OFDMA Cellular Systems · Traditional Resource Allocation · 0.91

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Existing resource allocation schemes (e.g., [ref] ) for multi-cell OFDMA systems have adopted a subcarrier-separation approach, whereby all subcarriers (SCs) are treated as separate dimensions for user selection and power allocation.

Cooperative Interference Control for Spectrum Sharing in OFDMA Cellular Systems · Introduction · 0.82

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