Early-Late Protocol for Coordinated Beam Scheduling in MmWave Cellular Networks
IEEE Global Communications Conference(2019)
摘要
As a benefit of using highly directional beams in millimeter wave systems, the downlink inter-cell interference (ICI) imposed on the users can be avoided, provided that the beams of neighbor cells do not point towards the user. We exploit this by designing a protocol for network-coordinated time-domain beam scheduling. Specifically, every pair of two neighbor cells maintains a beam collision table for recording the beam pairs that may inflict ICI upon each other. Then, to avoid beam-collision, the two neighbor cells exchange the necessary information to avoid the simultaneous activation of two beams recorded in one pair. More explicitly, our protocol supports a distributed cell coordination method without requiring any information exchanged between the user and the base station, once the beam collision table has been established. Furthermore, our theoretical analysis and numerical simulations demonstrate that the proposed protocol is capable of efficiently mitigating the ICI between the adjacent cells and hence improves the overall network performance.
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downlink intercell interference,network performance,distributed cell coordination method,beam collision table,network-coordinated time- domain beam scheduling,neighbor cells,ICI,highly directional beams,millimeter wave cellular networks,coordinated beam scheduling,early-late protocol
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