QoE based power control scheme for interference mitigation in high-density WLANs

Abstract

Mobile data traffic is going through an explosive growth recently as mobile smart devices become more and more ubiquitous, causing huge pressure on cellular network. Taking advantage of its low cost and easy-to-deploy feature, wireless local-area networks (WLAN) becomes increasingly popular to offload data streams from cellular network, followed by higher and higher density of its deployment. However, the high density of WLAN will cause more interference, which results in degradation of its performance. Therefore, in order to enhance the performance of the network, we aim to minimize the interference caused by high density of WLAN. In this paper, we propose a novel power control scheme to achieve the above aim. We use the quality of experience (QoE) evaluation to coordinate the power of each access point (AP) and finally realize the optimization of the entire network. According to the simulation results, our scheme improves the performance of the network significantly in many aspects, including throughput and QoE.