| Abstract |
In this paper, the efficiencies of different interference coordination schemes are evaluated for emerging wireless networks and the possible impact on intra-cell scheduling is studied through extensive simulations. The results show that pure fractional frequency reuse can provide similar improvement in the cell-edge throughput compared to power coordinated counterpart at a less cost in terms of overall throughput. Moreover, it can provide fairer distribution of throughput in both central as well as cell-edge areas. However, this scheme can not mange asymmetrical changes in the distribution of users across different cells in the entire system. As a result, a power coordination mechanism would be still necessary on top of such flexible frequency reuse schemes. |