Unified Radio Access Network operation for Multi-Radio Access Technology cellular systems

Author

Alsohaily, Ahmed ; Sousa, Elvino S

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

fYear

2014

fDate

4-7 May 2014

Firstpage

32

Lastpage

36

Abstract

The architectural structure of Radio Access Networks (RANs) in Multi-Radio Access Technology (RAT) cellular systems is based on the independent iteration of single RAT RANs and statically dividing radio frequency resources between co-deployed RATs, leading to high system complexity and suboptimal spectrum utilization. This paper proposes the unification of RAN operation and presents a scalable RAN architectural structure for multi-RAT cellular systems. Detailed system-level simulations, for a system co-deploying HSPA and LTE, show that joint resource allocation significantly enhances the system performance and outperforms dynamic spectrum management techniques employing disjoint resource allocation.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; access protocols; cellular radio; radio access networks; radio spectrum management; resource allocation; HSPA; LTE; RAT RAN; high system complexity; joint resource allocation; multi RAT cellular systems; multiradio access technology cellular systems; radio access network architectural structure; radio frequency resource division; suboptimal spectrum utilization; system performance enhancement; system-level simulations; unified radio access network operation; Computer architecture; Loading; Radio access networks; Rats; Resource management; Throughput; Cellular systems; multi-RAT systems; radio access networks; spectrum management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications (ICT), 2014 21st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5139-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICT.2014.6845075

Filename

6845075