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Femtocells have a strong potential for increasing the efficiency, cell coverage and network capacity of next-generation mobile networks. In Long Term Evolution technology, the adaptation of Fractional Frequency Reuse techniques has been proposed in order to overcome the co-channel interference and augment the total throughput of the network. In this work, we propose a Fractional Frequency Reuse method that on the one hand calculates the optimal inner region radius and frequency allocation of a macrocell and on the other hand assigns frequency resources to the femtocells in order to mitigate the co-channel interference. We apply this method in an integrated femtocell/macrocell environment and evaluate it based on the optimization of three metrics, depending on the network operator’s needs.
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Bouras, C., Kokkinos, V., Papazois, A., Tseliou, G. (2013). Fractional Frequency Reuse in Integrated Femtocell/Macrocell Environments. In: Tsaoussidis, V., Kassler, A.J., Koucheryavy, Y., Mellouk, A. (eds) Wired/Wireless Internet Communication. WWIC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7889. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38401-1_18
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