Radio Resource and Interference Management for Heterogeneous Networks

Abstract

Heterogeneous networks are usually operated in the interference limited regime due to the overlaid coverage areas of various base stations, so radio resource management and interference management are of critical importance to the success of heterogeneous networks. In this chapter we discuss these two issues in details mainly under the LTE‐Advanced standard. Specifically, we discuss various deployment scenarios and corresponding interference management categories for heterogeneous networks. For multi‐carrier scenarios, carrier partitioning, power control and carrier aggregation based approaches are introduced. For co‐channel scenarios, both time‐domain solution and the power setting solutions are discussed.