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Under the current requirements for mobile, ubiquitous and highly reliable communications, internet and mobile communication technologies have converged to an all-Internet Protocol (IP) packet network. This technological evolution is followed by a major change in the cellular networks’ architecture, where the traditional wide-range cells (macrocells) coexist with indoor small-sized cells (femtocells). A key challenge for the evolved heterogeneous cellular networks is the mitigation of the generated interferences. In the literature, this problem has been thoroughly studied from the Quality of Service (QoS) point of view, while a study from the user’s satisfaction perspective, described under the term “Quality of Experience (QoE)”, has not received enough attention yet. In this paper, we study the QoE performance of VoIP calls in a femto-overlaid Long Term Evolution – Advanced (LTE-A) network and we examine how QoE can drive a power controlled interference management scheme.
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This research has been co-financed by European Union (European Social Fund – ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning” of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) – Research Funding Program: Heracleitus II and the CROSSFIRE (un-CooRdinated netwOrk StrategieS for enhanced interFerence, mobIlity, radio Resource, and Energy saving management in LTE-Advanced networks) MITN Marie Curie project.
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Tsolkas, D., Liotou, E., Passas, N., Merakos, L. (2014). The Need for QoE-driven Interference Management in Femtocell-Overlaid Cellular Networks. In: Stojmenovic, I., Cheng, Z., Guo, S. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. MobiQuitous 2013. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11569-6_46
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