An analytical view of static intercell interference coordination techniques in OFDMA networks

Abstract

This paper presents a novel methodology to assess the downlink performance of static intercell interference coordination techniques in the context of OFDMA-based cellular networks. In the last few years, interference mitigation techniques have been considered a research topic of utmost importance since intercell interference is the main issue limiting the capacity of modern cellular technologies such as LTE and WiMAX. The methodology presented in this paper should be understood not only as an analytical shortcut to foresee overall network interference conditions but also a mean to properly establish bounds to parameters associated to static intercell interference techniques operation. Moreover, the analysis allows to take into account both local large scale fading particularities and mobile operators’ preferences. In this sense, results show how the resulting set of preferred operational points is in general operatordependent and hence, the usefulness of the proposed framework is established.