An interference cancellation strategy for broadcast in hierarchical cell structure

Yuli Yang, Sonia Aïssa, Ahmed M. Eltawil, Khaled N. Salama

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Abstract

In this paper, a hierarchical cell structure is considered, where public safety broadcasting is fulfilled in a femtocell located within a macrocell. In the femtocell, also known as local cell, an access point broadcasts to each local node (LN) over an orthogonal frequency sub-band independently. Since the local cell shares the spectrum licensed to the macrocell, a given LN is interfered by transmissions of the macrocell user (MU) in the same sub-band. To improve the broadcast performance in the local cell, a novel scheme is proposed to mitigate the interference from the MU to the LN while achieving diversity gain. For the sake of performance evaluation, ergodic capacity of the proposed scheme is quantified and a corresponding closed-form expression is obtained. By comparing with the traditional scheme that suffers from the MU's interference, numerical results substantiate the advantage of the proposed scheme and provide a useful tool for the broadcast design in hierarchical cell systems.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2014 IEEE Global Communications Conference
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages1792-1797
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781479935116
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2014

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