Performance Evaluation of a Relay-Based 4G Network Deployment with Combined SDMA/OFDMA and Resource Partitioning

Author

Pabst, Ralf ; Schultz, Daniel C. ; Walke, Bernhard H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Networks, RWTH Aachen, Aachen

fYear

2008

fDate

11-14 May 2008

Firstpage

2001

Lastpage

2005

Abstract

This work presents a low-cost, low complexity deployment concept for a relay-based cellular broadband network. The concept is based on a combination of a multi-antenna OFDMA base station (BS) and simple, single-antenna OFDMA relay nodes (RN) and user terminals (UT). The concept further encompasses a partitioning of the available radio resources in the frequency domain to control interference within and between relay enhanced cells (REC). The performance of the proposed system in a suburban cellular setup is evaluated by means of stochastic, event-driven simulation and a comparison against a pure BS-only scenario is made.

Keywords

4G mobile communication; cellular radio; frequency division multiple access; resource allocation; space division multiple access; 4G network deployment; cellular broadband network; frequency division multiple access; multi-antenna OFDMA base station; performance evaluation; relay enhanced cells; relay nodes; resource partitioning; space division multiple access; Base stations; Broadband communication; Cellular networks; Discrete event simulation; Frequency domain analysis; Multiaccess communication; Radio control; Radiofrequency interference; Relays; Stochastic systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2008. VTC Spring 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

Singapore

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1644-8

Electronic_ISBN

1550-2252

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2008.451

Filename

4526007