Increasing the Capacity of Cellular Network With Nested Deployed Cooperative Base Stations

• Main Authors: Qiong Wu, Qilian Liang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2018-01-01
• Series: IEEE Access
• Subjects: Cellular networks; nested-distributed base stations; sum-rate capacity
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8377990/

This paper investigates the capacity of the cooperative cellular networks and proposes to use the 2-D nested deployment on the base stations. Further analysis of sum-rate capacity and spectrum efficiency shows that this approach provides significant improvement. The study leverages the traditional model of regarding the coverage of base stations as the hexagonal blocks and views each hexagon as a macro-cell. One of the theoretical contributions of this paper is to use the invariance in the difference co-array to cover the derive the entire set of the channel fading coefficients. Furthermore, this paper proves the validity of using the average sum-rate capacity to calculate the capacity of the networks in both Rayleigh fading and nonfading channels. We also use simulations to confirm the correctness of the proposed theories from another perspective. As a result, the proposed approach remarkably improves the capacity of the network with the same amount of base stations.