Power allocation for collaborative transmission in LTE-Advanced

Abstract

Collaborative transmission among evolved Node-Bs (eNBs) is one of the promising techniques for LTE-Advanced to provide broader coverage and higher spectral efficiency. The interference among multi-cell transmission can be mitigated by joint precoding, such as multi-cell block diagonalization (BD) at cooperative eNBs. The major difference between multi-cell and single-cell transmission is that the power constraint has to be considered on a per-eNB basis. To satisfy per-eNB power constraint (PePC), a simplified power allocation algorithm for the multi-cell BD based collaborative transmission is proposed in this paper. The algorithm provides a power allocation coefficient matrix for BD to meet PePC. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has a near-optimal performance with simplicity.

Keywords

LTE-Advanced / coordinated transmission / per-eNB power constraint (PePC) / block diagonalization (BD)

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Research Institution of China Mobile.

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