Fractional frequency reuse (FFR) is an efficient way to mitigate inter-cell interference (ICI) in
multi-cell orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) networks. In this paper …

Densely deployed cellular wireless networks, which employ small cell technology, are being
widely implemented. Mitigating the impact of inter-and intracell signal interferences induced …

Next generation wireless networks face the challenge of increasing energy consumption
while satisfying the unprecedented increase in the data rate demand. To address this …

Femtocell networks have emerged as a key technology in residential, office building or
hotspot deployments that can significantly fulfill high data demands in order to offload indoor …

In this paper, we investigate the energy efficiency of downlink transmissions in
heterogeneous networks. Our objective is to satisfy the rate requirement of users while …

The mobility of edge users in cellular networks critically affects throughput and signal
reception performance. The mobile manner of users can deteriorate network connection …

Two-tier networks combining an operator-managed infrastructure of macrocell base stations
combined with a user-deployed network of femtocells have recently emerged in the context …

Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (ICIC) using frequency reuse schemes in Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) cellular networks is one of the most promising …

This paper evaluates the downlink performance of Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) in
Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks employing a metric combining throughput and fairness …

Interference mitigation strategies are deemed to play a key role in the context of the next
generation (B4G/5G) of multicellular networks based on orthogonal frequency division …