Power efficient and coordinated eICIC-CPC-ABS method for downlink in LTE-advanced heterogeneous networks

In 2020, mobile data traffic is expected to be a thousand times more than the current scenario. In order to handle this increased capacity, improvement in spectral efficiency is one of the challenging task. In long term evolution (LTE) and long term evolution advanced (LTE-A), deployment of small cell base station (SBS) and hotspot are step to handle the increased capacity of the network and quality of service. In this scenario, the SBSs are deployed under the coverage of macro cell base station (MBS). Neighbour MBS and neighbour SBS create intra and inter-cell interference to the users in the overlapped region. In order to mitigate interference, coordination between base stations is required. In this paper, we propose an enhanced intercell interference coordination by considering centralized processing controller with almost blank subframe (eICIC-CPC-ABS) for heterogeneous networks (HetNets). Centralized processing controller (CPC) at MBS decides the radio resource allocation of each SBSs based on user location. The dynamic frequency and reduced transmission power depend on the user locations. The analytical and simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method (eICIC-CPC-ABS) provides higher signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) compared to existing models: inter cell interference coordination (ICIC) and enhanced inter cell interference coordination (eICIC). The proposed method provides significant savings in transmitting power. Additionally, it increases the network capacity and coverage. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.