Performance evaluation of cell selection techniques for picocells in LTE-advanced networks

Author

Daeinabi, A. ; Sandrasegaran, K. ; Zhu, Xinen

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng. & Inf. Technol., Univ. of Technol. Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2013

fDate

15-17 May 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This survey paper provides a performance evaluation of some cell selection techniques proposed for picocells in the Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) networks. Picocell is the focus of this study because it can be deployed in areas with high volume of traffic (such as hotspots) so as to improve the overall system capacity. A number of techniques are evaluated such as maximum Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP), Cell Range Expansion (CRE) with static offset value and adaptive offset value as well as using Almost Blank Subframes (ABS) ratio. Then a comparison is provided in terms of cell throughput, cell edge throughput and Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) outage rate. The comparison described in this paper can be useful for readers interested to select the most appreciate cell selection technique for their particular goal.

Keywords

Long Term Evolution; performance evaluation; picocellular radio; telecommunication traffic; ABS; CRE; LTE-A; Long Term Evolution-Advanced network; PDCCH; RSRP; adaptive offset value; almost blank subframe ratio; cell edge throughput; cell range expansion; cell selection technique; performance evaluation; physical downlink control channel outage rate; picocell; reference signal received power; static offset value; traffic; Downlink; Interference; Macrocell networks; Signal to noise ratio; System performance; Throughput; Uplink; LTE-Advanced; cell range expansion; cell selection; offset value; outage rate; picocell; throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON), 2013 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Krabi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0546-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECTICon.2013.6559487

Filename

6559487