An Approach to Reduce Interference Using FFR in Heterogeneous Network

Abstract

As the world is progressing towards 5G technology, its primary requirement is high throughput, low latency, high spectrum and energy efficiency and guaranteed QoS. High throughput is achievable when the user (UE) and the base station/Macro eNodeB (MeNB) are close to each other. This is achieved by using femtocell or Home eNodeB (HeNB). It is a kind of small cell. The femtocell needs to exist along with macrocell. Hence, they will share the resource along with the macrocell. There arises serious inter-channel and intra-channel interference (ICIC). To mitigate the interference, various solution methodologies, e.g. power control, co-operative communication and absolute blank sub-frame, can be used. In this research work, fractional frequency reuse method is discussed where the cell is segregated into centred and edge regions. All the centred, i.e. inner, regions can be assigned with the same frequency sub-band. Edge regions, i.e. outer region, can be assigned with different frequency sub-band with reuse factor of three. In this technique, ICIC can be reduced significantly. Hence, QoS can be improved and throughput of the system can also be enhanced. The outage probability can be reduced since cell-edge users are assigned with different sub-bands with high power.