A Novel Approach for Centralized 3D Radio Resource Allocation and Scheduling in Dense HetNets for 5G Control-/User-plane Separation Architectures

Authors

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

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4186/ej.2017.21.4.287

Keywords:

3D, 5G, centralized, control-/user-plane separation, HetNet, resource scheduling, small cell

Abstract

This paper presents a centralized 3-dimensional radio resources (namely, time, frequency, and power) allocation and scheduling approach for control-plane and user-plane (C-/U-plane) separation architectures for fifth generation mobile networks. A central station is considered where schedulers of all base stations (BSs) are located. We consider a multi-tier network that comprises of a macrocell BS (MCBS), several outdoor picocell BSs, and a number of indoor femtocell BSs (FCBSs) deployed in a number of multi-storage buildings. The system bandwidth is reused in FCBSs within each building orthogonally. In contrast to the conventional almost blank subframe, we consider a fully blank subframe based time-domain enhanced intercell interference coordination to split completely C-/U-plane traffic such that the control-plane can be served only by the MCBS and the user-plane of user equipments by their respective BSs. We propose two power management schemes for FCBSs based on whether or not the coordinated multi-point communication with joint transmission (JT CoMP) is employed during off-state of a FCBS and develop a power control mechanism for both a single user and multi-user per FCBS scenarios. An optimal value of average activation factor (OAF) for a FCBS is derived to trade-off its serving capacity and transmit power saving factor. It is shown that in order to improve the network capacity, a FCBS needs to operate at an average activation factor (AAF) greater than its OAF using JT CoMP to serve neighboring on-state FCBSs during its normal off-state, whereas at an AAF less than the OAF to improve the energy efficiency. With a system level simulation, we show that the capacity of a FCBS increases, whereas its power saving factor decreases linearly with an increase in its AAF because of serving increased traffic, and an OAF of 0.5 for the capacity scaling factor k = 1/2 and greater than 0.5 for k < 1 are found. 

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Author Biographies

Rony Kumer Saha

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

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Published In
Vol 21 No 4, Jul 31, 2017
How to Cite
[1]
R. K. Saha, Y. Zhao, and C. Aswakul, “A Novel Approach for Centralized 3D Radio Resource Allocation and Scheduling in Dense HetNets for 5G Control-/User-plane Separation Architectures”, Eng. J., vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 287-305, Jul. 2017.