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The long term evolution (LTE) is one of the latest standards in the mobile communications market. To achieve its performance, LTE networks use several techniques, such as multi-carrier technique, multiple-input-multiple-output and cooperative communications. Inside cooperative communications, this paper focuses on the fixed relaying technique, presenting a way for determining the best position to deploy the relay station (RS), from a set of empirical good solutions, and also to quantify the associated performance gain using different cluster size configurations. The best RS position was obtained through realistic simulations, which set it as the middle of the cell’s circumference arc. Additionally, it also confirmed that network’s performance is improved when the number of RSs is increased. It was possible to conclude that, for each deployed RS, the percentage of area served by an RS increases about 10 %. Furthermore, the mean data rate in the cell has been increased by approximately 60 % through the use of RSs. Finally, a given scenario with a larger number of RSs, can experience the same performance as an equivalent scenario without RSs, but with higher reuse distance. This conduces to a compromise solution between RS installation and cluster size, in order to maximize capacity, as well as performance.
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This work was partially supported by the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) and the Portuguese Foundation for the Science and Technology (FCT) - Project “Coordinated Multiuser MIMO for Future Wireless Networks” (PTDC/EEA-TEL/116082/2009).
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Martins, A., Rodrigues, A. & Vieira, P. On the Choice of Positioning and Cluster Size for Fixed Relay Stations in a LTE Network. Wireless Pers Commun 79, 745–762 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-014-1884-y
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