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Joint subchannel assignment and power control in OFDMA in‐band full‐duplex heterogeneous networks
Author(s) -
Rajabi Hamed,
Rasti Mehdi,
Pedram Hossein,
Yousefpour Rohollah
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
transactions on emerging telecommunications technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.366
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 2161-3915
DOI - 10.1002/ett.4001
Subject(s) - macrocell , heterogeneous network , femtocell , computer science , transmitter power output , telecommunications link , integer programming , power control , cellular network , mathematical optimization , base station , throughput , optimization problem , computer network , user equipment , wireless network , interference (communication) , linear programming , wireless , power (physics) , algorithm , telecommunications , mathematics , transmitter , channel (broadcasting) , physics , quantum mechanics
Among the emerging technologies for the fifth‐generation (5G) cellular networks, in‐band full‐duplex (FD) wireless communication and heterogeneous networks (HetNets) are two promising technologies, which can significantly improve the network capacity. Due to self‐interference (SI) and multiple sources of intercell interference, base station (BS)‐BS interference and user equipment (UE)‐UE interference in FD HetNets, interference management is a significant and challenging issue in such a network. To this end, in this article, we study the joint subchannel assignment and power control problem in the OFDMA FD HetNet. The joint subchannel assignment and power control problem in this network is formulated as an optimization problem to maximize the uplink and downlink sum throughput of the femtocell user equipments (FUEs) taking into account the maximum interference constraint imposed on the macrocell user equipments (MUEs) and the minimum throughput constraint of FUEs. Since the formulated problem is a nonconvex and intractable mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem, we invoke variable change and linear approximation to reformulate and convert the problem into a tractable mixed‐integer linear programming (MILP) problem. Numerical results show that the optimal solution of the new MILP problem is very close to the optimal objective value of the original MINLP problem. The results also demonstrate that in an OFDMA FD HetNet, when all the UEs and the BSs are FD, approximately 50% improvement in the network throughputcan be achieved compared with a half‐duplex HetNet.