The paper presents a geometry-based MIMO channel model for outdoor-to-indoor applications. The propagation channel model is derived when indoor scatterers are located on a hollow-disk around the user and a distribution of outdoor scatterers exists between the base stati More
The paper presents a geometry-based MIMO channel model for outdoor-to-indoor applications. The propagation channel model is derived when indoor scatterers are located on a hollow-disk around the user and a distribution of outdoor scatterers exists between the base station and the user. The closed-form Cross-Correlation Function (CCF) is derived for the aforementioned scenario. This function depends on various parameters of interest including the distance between the base station and the user, the spacing among antennas elements, and the directions of the antennas elements. The numerical CCF values are obtained with Radiowave Propagation Simulator (RPS) software for the building of Electrical and Computer Engineering School at the University of Sistan and Baluchestan. The results show that considering the outdoor scatterers increases the accuracy of the CCF and the capacity computation significantly.
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In this paper, we propose a coordinated fair scheduling (CFS) scheme for LTE-Advanced networks where the cells are equipped with multiple sector antennas. To enhance the network spectral efficiency and throughput, the sectors use the same frequency bands. However, to re More
In this paper, we propose a coordinated fair scheduling (CFS) scheme for LTE-Advanced networks where the cells are equipped with multiple sector antennas. To enhance the network spectral efficiency and throughput, the sectors use the same frequency bands. However, to reduce the co-channel interference, the transmissions from the sectors to the users are coordinated. In other words, multiple sectors are allowed to transmit simultaneously, if the occurred co-channel interference is less than a threshold value. The scheduling scheme takes advantage of the user's diversity in space to transmit to the users with good channel conditions while maintaining fairness among the users using the alpha-fair criterion. Furthermore, a heuristic approach is proposed to reduce the computational complexity of the scheduling scheme. The performance of the proposed CFS scheme and the heuristic approach are evaluated using simulation results. The simulation results show that using coordinated fair scheduling improves system performance and increases cell throughput.
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