A distributed muting adaptation solution for a QoS-aware user association and load balancing in HetNets

Abderrazak, Jihene Ben; Zemzem, Amina; Besbes, Hichem

doi:10.1109/ictc.2015.7354576

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“…A sizable body of literature has been published on user association and load balancing in cellular [7], [8], [9], [10], [11] and local area networks [12], [13], [14].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The authors show how, by adjusting the proportion of Almost Blank Subframes (ABS), it is possible to increase the data rate of cell-edge users by a factor of three. Similarly, load-and QoS-aware user association is considered in [8]. More specifically, distributed user association and semidistributed macro-pico load balancing schemes are proposed aiming to jointly determine the ABS ratio that maximizes users association.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Traffic-aware user association in heterogeneous LTE/WiFi radio access networks

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Herle

Maradin³

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NOMS 2018 - 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium

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WiFi networks are known to be a cost-efficient traffic offloading solution for mobile networks. The Multi Access Packet Data Network Connectivity is a feature introduced in LTE Release 10 in order to allow users to be simultaneously connected to multiple radio access networks (RAN). Although this feature brings many advantages, such as the possibility to implement QoS-based traffic steering, it poses also many challenges, one of which is distributing traffic among the two radio access technologies. In this paper, we propose a trafficaware user association algorithm for heterogeneous LTE/WiFi RANs. The proposed algorithm is formulated as an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) problem jointly optimizing user association and resource allocation. A heuristic is also proposed in order to address the scalability issues of the ILP-based algorithm. Numerical simulations are used in order to compare the proposed approaches. Finally, we implemented and tested the heuristic in small-scale testbed using the 5G-EmPOWER platform.

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“…A sizable body of literature has been published on user association and load balancing in cellular [7], [8], [9], [10], [11] and local area networks [12], [13], [14].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%