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Resource Allocation and Reuse in LTE. Contents. Introduction History of Resource Reuse Proposals and Specification for LTE Inter-cell Interference Soft Frequency Reuse Conclusion. Introduction. Resource reuse to enhance capacity
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Contents • Introduction • History of Resource Reuse • Proposals and Specification for LTE • Inter-cell Interference • Soft Frequency Reuse • Conclusion Mobile Communication 2 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Introduction Resource reuse to enhance capacity • use expensive spectrum acquired by providers most efficiently • minimize number of BS but maximize number of users • leads to interference limited systems Mobile Communication 3 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Contents • Introduction • History of Resource Reuse • Proposals and Specification for LTE • Inter-cell Interference • Soft Frequency Reuse • Conclusion Mobile Communication 4 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
History of Resource Reuse GSM • digital because higher SIR supported • clusters of cells • frequency reuse factor between 3 and 9 • not very efficient Mobile Communication 5 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
History of Resource Reuse UMTS • real freq reuse 1 through spreading and scrambling • no more freq planning • Macro diversity => connections to 1 or more BS Scrambling A Spreading 1,2,3 Scrambling B Spreading 1,2,3 Mobile Communication 6 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Contents • Introduction • History of Resource Reuse • Proposals and Specification for LTE • Inter-cell Interference • Soft Frequency Reuse • Conclusion Mobile Communication 7 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Proposals and Specifications • no specifications defined jet ( necessary? ) • frequency reuse 1 proposed • hard handover, no macro diversity • many proposals to combat ICI (3GPP TR 25.814) • ICI cancellation • ICI co-ordination • ICI randomization Mobile Communication 8 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Contents • Introduction • History of Resource Reuse • Proposals and Specification for LTE • Inter-cell Interference • Soft Frequency Reuse • Conclusion Mobile Communication 9 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Inter-cell Interference ICI cancellation multiple antennas can be used to suppress interferer - demodulation and subtraction (Blast) - IRC (Interference rejection combining) instead of MRC (Maximum ratio combining) - optimum combining - uplink: multiple BS can be seen as giant MIMO system drawback: extremely high complexity Mobile Communication 10 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Inter-cell Interference ICI randomization similar to the method used in UMTS • cell specific scrambling • cell specific interleaving (IDMA) (interleave-division multiple access) the UE can identify the transmitting BS via different patterns, interference is spread over multiple channels Mobile Communication 11 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Inter-cell Interference ICI co-ordination most promising methods for LTE - soft frequency reuse (SFR) reuse 1 -> cell-centre users (CCU) reuse 3 -> cell-edge users (CEU) - co-ordination between BSs TLA (two level allocation scheme) (see graphic) UFR (universal frequency reuse) -> static DMA (dynamic major-group allocation scheme) -> dynamic Mobile Communication 12 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Inter-cell Interference adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) users with different SIR get different modulation and coding schemes assigned • modulation schemes up to 64-QAM • Turbo coding with different code rates drawback: wasting of resources Mobile Communication 13 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Inter-cell Interference beam forming at eNodeB BSs track their active subscribers with the antenna beam Mobile Communication 14 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Inter-cell Interference Muting -> UE tracks the scheduling information of neighboring cells -> UE recognizes when co-channel interferer are active -> in this case the UE is ‘mute’, doesn’t transmit drawback: wasting of resources Mobile Communication 15 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Contents • Introduction • History of Resource Reuse • Proposals and Specification for LTE • Inter-cell Interference • Soft Frequency Reuse • Conclusion Mobile Communication 16 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Soft Frequency Reuse TLA (two level allocation scheme) CRA (cell-level resource allocation) - static, major- & minor-group URA (user-level resource allocation) - division in CEU (high priority) and CCU by geometry factor Mobile Communication 17 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Soft Frequency Reuse benefits: • CQI (channel quality information) has to be available at BS anyway, can be used for partitioning users • low complexity • better cell-edge performance drawbacks: • signaling overhead • reuse partitioning is suboptimal from information theoretical point of view • overall loss of throughput (see next slides) Mobile Communication 18 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Soft Frequency Reuse Impact of ICI on capacity, reuse 1 y-axis Cell Throughput: whole cell [bits/second] x-axis arrival rate: poisson distriubuted [erlang / number of servers] Mobile Communication 19 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Soft Frequency Reuse Impact of ICI on capacity: reuse 1/3 Throughput of the whole cell Throughput per cell-edge user Mobile Communication 20 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Soft Frequency Reuse circles mark the link utilization factor: 0.2 / 0.4 / 0.6 / 0.8 / 1 Types of traffic Narrow-band services (calls) will perform better than wide-band services (FTP) reason: narrow-band services allow more flexibility in resource allocation Served traffic of user X Mobile Communication 21 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Soft Frequency Reuse three different algorithms for three different cells C0, C1, C2 UFR (Ki Tae Kim, 2007) (universal frequency reuse) • special patterns (sequences) for frequency allocation coordinated with neighboring cells • lower interference for small LF (loading factor) • static configuration, low complexity Loading factor Mobile Communication 22 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Soft Frequency Reuse DMA (Fan, Qian, Zheng, Wang, 2007) (dynamic major-group allocation scheme) dynamic allocation of major group sub carriers depending on the number of CEU (sectors per site) • benefits depending on major- to minor-group power-ratio • high complexity Mobile Communication 23 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Contents • Introduction • History of Resource Reuse • Proposals and Specification for LTE • Inter-cell Interference • Soft Frequency Reuse • Conclusion Mobile Communication 24 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Conclusion Specifications / Suggestions: • reuse 1 • no macro-diversity • hard handover ICI overcoming: • cancellation: too complex • mitigation / coordination: will be supported in LTE • randomization: no real improvement • beam forming at eNodeB: will be supported in LTE • AMC (adaptive modulation and coding): will be supported in LTE Mobile Communication 25 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Conclusion Soft Frequency Reuse: • also called reuse 1/3 • partitioning of users in CEU and CCU through geometry factor • good performance for CEU • low complexity • overall loss of throughput • further improvements through different scheduling / resource assignment methods possible (UFR, DMA) Mobile Communication 26 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
The End Thank you, Questions ? Mobile Communication 27 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Appendix References, Specifications: • 3GPP TR 25.892, Feasibility Study for OFDM for UTRAN enhancement, 2004-06 • 3GPP TR 25.814, Physical layer aspects for eUTRA, 2006-09 • 3GPP R1-050764, Ericsson, Inter-cell Interference Handling for eUTRA, 2005-08-29, London • 3GPP R1-050763, Ericsson, Muting – Further Discussion and Results, 2005-08-29, London • 3GPP R1-060864, Texas Instruments, Overview of Resource Management Techniques for Interference Mitigation in eUTRA, 2006-03-27, Athens Mobile Communication 28 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Appendix References, Papers: • Bin Fan, A Dynamic Resource Allocation Scheme Based on Soft Frequency Reuse for OFDMA Systems, 2007 • Elayoubi, On frequency allocation in 3G LTE systems, 2006 • Fan, An Inter-Cell Interference Coordination Technique Based on User's Ratio and Multi-Level Frequency Allocations, 2007 • Jorguseski, Downlink Resource Allocation in Beyond 3G OFDMA Cellular Systems, 2007 • Ki Tae Kim, A Universal Frequency Reuse System in Mobile Cellular Environment, 2007 • Simonsson, Frequency Reuse and Inter-cell Interference Co-ordination in eUTRA, 2007 Mobile Communication 29 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687
Appendix References, Books: • Dahlman, Parkvall, Sköld, Beming, 3G Evolution – HSPA and LTE for Mobile Broadband, Academic Press, 2007 • Molisch, Wireless Communications, Wiley & Sons, 2005 Mobile Communication 30 Markus Laner Seminar, SS 2008 0325687