An Analytical Review of Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Networks

Hossen, Azhar Ali; Mungur, Avinash; Armoogum, Sheeba; Pudaruth, Sameerchand

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-89912-7_18

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“…10,11 The ABS sub-frames are designed to mute the Macro Cell in specific sub-frames, prioritizing other cells to use protected sub-frames and reducing interference generated by the Macro Cell to neighboring cells. 12 Consequently, during ABS sub-frames, certain users may be associated with the protected sub-frames of other cells instead of the Macro Cell, improving the cell edge users' throughput until the Macro Cell remains silent or has reduced power. 13 Typically, ABS sub-frames are reserved for common signals such as control, page, and broadcast signals in the Macro Cells.…”

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“…13 Typically, ABS sub-frames are reserved for common signals such as control, page, and broadcast signals in the Macro Cells. 12 By utilizing ABS sub-frames in the small cells and Macro Cells as well, the proposed approach aims to address the issue of inter-cell interference in diverse networks and simultaneously solve load balancing and interference challenges by employing CRE-ABS together in an innovative manner. Overall, this technique has the potential to enhance the performance and efficiency of cellular networks significantly.…”

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“…However, this technique requires a significant amount of convergence time. On the other hand, the authors of Reference 12 proposed a solution called Simple Decentralized Adaptive Cell Association (SDACA) that has a fast convergence time and utilizes feedback from individual UEs and broadcast messages from macro eNodeBs. To improve user throughput at the cell edge while maintaining average user throughput, the authors of Reference 26 proposed an adaptive control strategy.…”

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“…This is done to minimize interference to UE in neighboring cells, thereby enhancing the performance of cell edge users 10,11 . The ABS sub‐frames are designed to mute the Macro Cell in specific sub‐frames, prioritizing other cells to use protected sub‐frames and reducing interference generated by the Macro Cell to neighboring cells 12 . Consequently, during ABS sub‐frames, certain users may be associated with the protected sub‐frames of other cells instead of the Macro Cell, improving the cell edge users' throughput until the Macro Cell remains silent or has reduced power 13 .…”

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“…Consequently, during ABS sub‐frames, certain users may be associated with the protected sub‐frames of other cells instead of the Macro Cell, improving the cell edge users' throughput until the Macro Cell remains silent or has reduced power 13 . Typically, ABS sub‐frames are reserved for common signals such as control, page, and broadcast signals in the Macro Cells 12 . By utilizing ABS sub‐frames in the small cells and Macro Cells as well, the proposed approach aims to address the issue of inter‐cell interference in diverse networks and simultaneously solve load balancing and interference challenges by employing CRE‐ABS together in an innovative manner.…”

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Distance‐based cell range extension and almost blank sub‐frame for load balancing and interference mitigation in 5G and beyond heterogeneous networks

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The goal of deploying LTE‐Advanced heterogeneous networks is to meet the growing need for Quality of Service (QoS), high data rates, and more coverage. Load balancing is one of the biggest problems, especially when User Equipment (UE) uses received signal strength to connect to different transmission power network tiers. Spectrum for small cells has not been used to its full potential. While all the cells are using the same frequency spectrum and the small cells overlap the Macro Cells, preventing interference is another big problem. The proposed Cell Range Extension (CRE) and Almost Blank Sub‐frame (ABS) provides a solution to overcome these challenges. The proposed ABS in this paper is novel because it is a partial muting one rather than the full muting ABS in recent research studies. In addition, the cell association method is by distance rather than conventional Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP). CRE‐ABS has been applied simultaneously to solve both load balancing and interference. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves substantial throughput and Jain's Fairness Index (JFI).

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Optimizing cell association in 5G and beyond networks: a modified load-aware biased technique

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Cellular networks are moving towards increasing heterogeneity by deploying more small cells into macro base station (MBS) to meet rapidly growing traffic demands. To leverage the advantages of these small cells, mobile users should be offloaded onto small base stations (BSs), which will typically be lightly populated and can give a higher data rate by presenting the mobile users with many more channels than the MBS. Likewise, a more balanced cell association will lessen the pressure on the MBS, allowing it to serve its remaining users more effectively. This paper addresses the cell association challenge for Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning in terms of throughput and load-balancing for 5G and future generation networks. This problem is quite challenging because BSs have varying backhaul capacities and users have varying QoS needs. Most of the previous studies are based on reference signal received power (RSRP), signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) or its variants and most importantly majority of them are not load-aware. Therefore, a modified load-aware biased cell association scheme based on distance is proposed to attain better QoS provisioning in terms of throughput and load-balancing. Simulation results depict that the proposed load-aware-based method outperforms conventional cell association schemes based on RSRP and its variants, and in terms of throughput and load-balancing. Furthermore, the algorithm’s complexity has been assessed through a comparison and analysis of computational time, demonstrating better performance compared to state-of-the-art techniques.

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Central Load Balancing Policy Over Virtual Machines on Cloud

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The spread handling viewpoint certificates a fiscally smart reaction for running business applications using virtualization movements, very adaptable streamed figuring, and information association methods, and besides a compensation as-you-go evaluating model. Recently, it additionally offers preferred taking care of cutoff points with respect over applications to manage complex issues. Overhauling asset use is essential for accomplishing cost attainability. Low use has for quite a long time been an issue in server farms. Servers in an ordinary server farm are worked at 10 to 50 percent of their most ludicrous use level. 10 to 20 percent usage is customary in server farms. For a server farm or a subset of servers in a server farm that by and large handles applications with predominant taking care of necessities and runs equivalent organizations, generally speaking, the issue can be essential. With this work, the current concept for task load balancing in a distributed computing environment is extended to virtual machines (VMs).

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An Analytical Review of Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Networks

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References 21 publications

Distance‐based cell range extension and almost blank sub‐frame for load balancing and interference mitigation in 5G and beyond heterogeneous networks

Distance‐based cell range extension and almost blank sub‐frame for load balancing and interference mitigation in 5G and beyond heterogeneous networks

Optimizing cell association in 5G and beyond networks: a modified load-aware biased technique

Central Load Balancing Policy Over Virtual Machines on Cloud

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