Towards 5G Cellular: Understanding 3D In-Building Single Band and Multi-band Small Cells with Control/User-plane Coupled and Separation Architectures with a Novel Resource Reuse Approach

Authors

  • Rony Kumer Saha Chulalongkorn University
  • Yan Zhao Chulalongkorn University
  • Chaodit Aswakul Chulalongkorn University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4186/ej.2017.21.3.309

Keywords:

5G, architecture, femtocell, frequency band, in-building, control-/user-plane, resource reuse

Abstract

In this paper, we present numerous small cell base station, i.e. femtocell base station (FCBS), with control-/user-plane coupled and separation architectures based on the number of transceivers and operating frequency bands to serve control-/user-plane traffic. A single transceiver enabled FCBS can operate at either a co-channel microwave of the overlaid macrocell or a millimeter wave band. For multiple transceivers, dual transceivers are considered operating at both bands. FCBSs are deployed in a number of buildings with each floor modeled as 5 by 5 square-grid apartments. The co-channel interference with FCBSs is avoided using enhanced intercell interference coordination techniques. We propose a static frequency reuse approach and develop an algorithm by avoiding adjacent channel interferences from reusing frequencies in FCBSs. We also develop a resource scheduling algorithm for FCBSs with CUCA and CUSA to evaluate system level performances with a multi-tier network. It is found that a single transceiver co-channel microwave enabled FCBS with CUCA provides the worse, whereas a single or dual transceivers millimeter wave enabled FCBS with CUSA provides the best overall system capacity and FCBSs' energy efficiency performances. Besides, we show the outperformances of the proposed resource reuse approach over an existing approach in literature in terms of system capacity and fairness among FCBSs with CUCA. Finally, we point out the applicability of a multi-band enabled FCBS and several features and issues of FCBSs with CUCA and CUSA.

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Author Biographies

Rony Kumer Saha

Wireless Network and Future Internet Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

Yan Zhao

International School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

Chaodit Aswakul

Wireless Network and Future Internet Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

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Published In
Vol 21 No 3, Jun 15, 2017
How to Cite
[1]
R. K. Saha, Y. Zhao, and C. Aswakul, “Towards 5G Cellular: Understanding 3D In-Building Single Band and Multi-band Small Cells with Control/User-plane Coupled and Separation Architectures with a Novel Resource Reuse Approach”, Eng. J., vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 309-343, Jun. 2017.